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TIL that Magpies have been observed taking part in elaborate grieving rituals, which have been likened to human funerals, including laying grass wreaths.

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awv5M TIL that between 1866 and 1871 the Fenians, a group of republican Irishmen who fought in the American Civil War, tried to invade Canada in order to use it as ransom against the UK in order to liberate Ireland.
NXBy6 TIL at the height of the Beanie Baby craze in the 1990s Lender's Bagels made a knockoff "Beanie Baby Bagel".
4Xnko TIL our ears and noses continue to "grow" as we age, but not due to our physiology. Instead, it is gravity which is responsible for pulling the cartilage of our ears and noses down, stretching the surrounding skin, which we perceive as growth
69W9Z TIL: Andre the Giant who played "Fezzik" in The Princess Bride, didn't know English. He memorized his lines phonetically.
KOMea TIL during Prohibition, federal agents Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith disguised themselves as grave-diggers, football players, Russian women, rabbis, judges, and plumbers (among many others). Together, they seized more than 5 million bottles of illicit booze and made 4,932 arrests.