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TIL during the 2007 Writers Strike, David Letterman paid the Late Show staff out of his own pocket.

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oRMmR TIL the world’s oldest wild bird, a 74-year-old albatross, is expecting again.
VMalk TIL In 2020, conservationists captured the first images of Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria, proving that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing. Cross River gorillas are notoriously difficult to capture on camera and no images had captured multiple infants
mkJM TIL Thatcher supposedly threatened to nuke Argentina over the Falklands if the French president didn’t hand over the disabling codes for the French-made Argentinian missiles.
0w4XN TIL that due to specialization of brain hemispheres, dolphins use the right eye to look at unfamiliar objects and the left eye for familiar targets
DQ5Er TIL of the 80's Japanese punk band 'Hanatarash', famous for their live shows. Before being banned by most venues they had used a machete to cleave a dead cat, incidents with circular saws, used excavators to tear down venues, and at one point threatened to throw a molotov cocktail into the crowd