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TIL Crows have a basic understanding of language and can use words like “Hello,” correctly inferring its use as a greeting

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698wX TIL that China was the only nation at the Paris Peace Conference to not sign the Treaty of Versailles.
v10M4 TIL: Julie Taymor became first woman to win Best Direction Tony 1998
N7gxM TIL Cleveland kidnapping victim Amanda Berry, held for almost 10 years and freed in 2013, has a TV segment on the Cleveland news dedicated to finding missing people.
VMpRQ TIL of Major General Peter Conover Hains who is believed to be the only person to have served in both the American Civil War and WWI. he retired at the mandatory retirement age of 64 but was recalled to active duty out of retirement at the age of 77 in 1917 to serve in WWI as an engineer.
dDRGZ TIL - When Jacques Charles flew the first hydrogen balloon in 1783, it was destroyed by terrified peasants when it landed as it was only the second ever balloon flight.