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Today I learned birds do not sleep in their nests.

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1y94 TIL that Sylvester Stallone sold his dog for $25 to make ends meet before hitting it big with Rocky, then bought it back for $15,000.
D1n0v TIL that the Boeing 747 prototype had a consistent problem with engines randomly exploding. The test pilot took the president of the engine manufacturer for a ride and blew up engines one by one until he was nervously asked told to stop. The problem was promptly fixed.
10y7 TIL in 1910, when asked how much vacation time a worker should take annually, President Taft recommended 3 months
MelWV TIL: The Rwandan Genocide killed 800,000 people and led to war and subsequent genocide that killed 5.4 million.
9Yag7 TIL to defend a South African city under siege in 1899, a mining engineer from Detroit built a 155' high watchtower with search lights and telephones, a water supply system, a bulk refrigeration plant, two armored trains, artillery shells, a cannon, and also the tools needed to build the cannon