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TIL crows are smart as great apes and able to show: imagination, the anticipation of possible future events, to solve problems which require abstract reasoning. Problems which once were only thought possible by humans and great apes.

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wLBPE TIL of Robert Fortune who in the 19th century was hired by the British East India Company to infiltrate China and steal their tea and reveal their tea-making process kept secret for thousands of years.
pYP54 TIL The "July Effect" is more of an urban legend than rooted in fact. There is not an increase in mortality in US hospitals in July when interns, residents, and fellows settle into their roles.
DQY4g TIL invention of the modern American football helmet is credited to US Naval Academy football player (and later Admiral) Joseph M. Reeves, who had a shoemaker create one for him after a Navy doctor told him another kick to his head could result in instant insanity or death.
r0B0 TIL that in 1975, North Korean embassy staff in Australia crashed their Mercedes, and when they went to the nearest house for help they were aghast to find that that they had knocked on the door of the South Korean ambassador’s residence.
GrOJ TIL the irish Peter O'Connor at the flag-raising ceremony in the 1906 olympics, in protest at the flying of the Union Flag for his second place, scaled a flagpole in the middle of the field and waved the Irish flag, while the pole was guarded by Irish and American athletes and supporters.