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TIL whenever you hear the sound of a bald eagle on TV, you’re actually hearing a red-tailed hawk. Bald eagles actually have more of a chirp.

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MeaX7 TIL the last time the British Empire expanded was 1955, when they annexed a tiny rock 300km off the Scottish coast to prevent the Soviets spying on their ballistic missile tests.
wLYYM TIL that when the NFL football team Seattle Seahawks invited a retired 4 star general to their facility, Seattles head coach Pete Carroll blitzed him with questions about whether the 9/11 attacks “had been planned or faked” by the government.
ROGQ TIL that the recurrent laryngeal nerve in Giraffes is often cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to the “intelligent design” from God. The lengthy 15 foot nerve takes an inefficient, circuitous route; It exits the brain, goes down and around the heart, then back up to the Giraffe’s voicebox.
RM0Q TIL the prime minister of Somalia from 2010 to 2011 was a Somalian-American man who worked and continues to work at the Buffalo, New York Department of Transportation
ZmPD TIL a Futurama fan spent 14 months drawing all the characters and alternate versions of the main characters from the show for one image. It’s about 1,300 individual figures.