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TIL Owls make almost no noise from flying, even when tested in a room with multiple microphones

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mxBnM TIL about ParkWest, an Detroit-based gallery that only sells art in international waters during cruises. They purport to sell original artworks at steep discounts but in reality get bidders drunk to buy reproductions for thousands more than they’re worth. Plus, cruise lines are in on the scam.
ZEOY TIL in 2001, IT at UNC decided to do a server audit. They realized that they could not find one of their best performing servers. Eventually resorting to following the physical cabling, they hit a wall, literally. The server had been buried behind a wall during remodeling for over 4 years.
YpowA TIL that writing by hand increases children's brain activity and makes them smarter
Qoo6 TIL the Polish National anthem promises coming back from Italy to Poland and the Italian National anthem speaks of spilling Italian and Polish Blood against a common enemy making them uniquely reference to each other.
aB7b TIL that three of the actors who played Nazis on the WWII sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” were German Jews who had escaped from Nazi Germany. Two of them spent time in concentration camps, and another French Jewish actor also spent time in a camp.