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Today I learned birds do not sleep in their nests.

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yQ48J TIL legendary football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant earned his nickname by agreeing to wrestle a bear for $1 at a carnival when he was 13 years old. The bear bit his ear, and the carnival never paid him $1.
GK8J TIL a 16 year old boy was jailed at Rikers for three years without a trial or conviction.
9Gy6 TIL that Abraham Lincoln was challenged to, and accepted a duel. It ended abruptly due to Lincoln’s height intimidating his opponent.
kOrN4 TIL Scientists haven’t excavated the tomb of China’s first emperor because they are not allowed to, and because it is (or was) surrounded by a “river of mercury”
5YM88 TIL that the FDA has a document based around cloning animals