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TIL ducklings indicate signs of abstract thinking. Ducklings demonstrated the ability to think abstractly within hours of being hatched, distinguishing the concepts of “same” and “different” with success.

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P1WnL TIL actor Richard Harris was offered the role of English Bob in Unforgiven by a phone call from Clint Eastwood while watching Eastwood's western High Plains Drifter. Richard thought it was a prank at first.
E1bex TIL Orson Welles sat next to Hitler and said that Hitler made no impression on him at all and was unmemorable. He said that he had no personality at all: "He was invisible. There was nothing there until there were 5,000 people yelling sieg heil"
4kODb TIL that from 2009 to 2019, out of 212 cruise ship overboard incidents only 48 people were rescued.
5bD8 TIL the Met houses a D20 (20 sided gaming die) from around 300 BC
XAMr TIL the castle from the Rocky Horror Picture Show is now a hotel that you can spend the night in!