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TIL While playing Chess a female contestant can only open 2 buttons from the top on her shirt

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0dRG1 TIL that similar to snakes and mongeese, owls and crows are the most bitter rivals in the animal kingdom, and the rivalry is so ingrained in the minds of the two birds that crows who have been raised in captivity and have never seen an owl before will go berserk the first time they see one somewhere
l7nLK TIL When you flush a soiled toilet a plume of germs sprays up into the air.
6EllZ TIL that the US first used gas chambers to execute prisoners in 1924, 15 years before Nazi Germany. In 2015, Oklahoma introduced nitrogen gas as an alternative execution method.
OoPOa TIL of Alexei Maresyev, a Soviet fighter ace who, upon being shot down, crawled for 18 days and nights back to Soviet territory. Even though his legs had to be amputated due to frostbite, he was soon back in the air with the assistance of prosthetic legs.
b5j4 TIL that 2,500 people were arrested for cannibalism in the 1930’s during the Holodomor Famine in Ukraine