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TIL ravens can talk

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LndV TIL The Three Stooges, during their 23 years with Colombia Pictures, were chronically underpaid and never received a pay increase, because the head of the studio convinced them that they were unpopular with audiences.
ZpvBY TIL that in the 19th century, a Portuguese writer was imprisoned and disowned for adultery. While in prison, he wrote a book featuring a character who commits similar crimes. After his death, this book made him very famous and a national hero.
ABv7 TIL the projectile in badminton, called a shuttlecock, can be real feathers or synthetic. Real feather shuttlecocks, like those used in the Olympics, contain 16 feathers plucked from the left, and only left, wing of a goose. This ensures consistent rotation.
RJ17 TIL a 93-YEAR-OLD Japanese man has been officially recognised as the only person to have survived two nuclear bombs.
MeEPV TIL A woman was elected to Congress before women’s suffrage. American women were given the right to vote in 1920, but Jeanette Rankin became the first woman in the U.S. federal office in 1916.