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TIL that owls and eagles hate each other.They will fight and kill each other and this had been going on since 36 million years.

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m1VPp TIL Monty Python reunited for Monty Python Live (Mostly) (2014) because they suddenly owed £800,000 pounds to Mark Forstater over Spamalot royalties. The ten shows were their first live ensemble performances in 34 years.
rNB64 TIL a team of 3 students won $700K for using AI to decipher the first passages of a 2,000-year-old scroll; 1 of 800 scrolls that were carbonized by the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE. Since their discovery in the 1700s, trying to read them proved futile because unrolling them by hand caused damage
X056D [TIL] That, in an attempt to make multicultural characters, DV created SNOWFLAME - a Colombian drug lord whose special powers came from snorting an obscene amount of cocaine.
797M TIL Snopes.com has an article explaining that Mr. Ed is actually not a horse but a zebra. The page is completely false. It’s meant to encourage users to use common sense even in the face trusted authority.
GAyMN TIL The Keroman Base in Lorient France was Among the last WWII Strongholds to surrender because it was so heavily fortified not even bombing will destroy it. In the Battle of the Atlantic allies chose to bomb the surroundings instead to reduce its effectiveness. It could harbor 30 U-boats.