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TIL that cheetas chirp like birds and it is SO cute.

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1abZD TIL Arrow, a now-bankrupt Formula 1 team fell for a Nigerian Prince scam in 1999.
6k4m TIL Alaska has for almost 40 years paid all its residents more than $1,000 per year as a dividend from the state’s tax revenues from oil. A decision has been made to use the wealth from oil to activate all residents rather than to expand the state’s public budget.
VODQ TIL American slaves in 1850 were sold for around $40,000 (in contemporary money); a slave nowadays can be bought for just $90, making “replacement” more economical than providing long term care.
yQNRp TIL That a mountaineer found a wallet in the Andes mountain range that belonged to passenger of the plane crash in 1972. Realising the owner had survived, the mountaineer returned in wallet to him in 2005, more than 30 years later.
OG9J1 TIL It's illegal to engage in metal detecting in Ireland