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TIL the US Coast Guard trains pigeons to spot lifejackets, and they’re 92% accurate.

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mxabx TIL Codex Gigas, largest manuscript in the world was the work of a single scribe according to a legend he added devil's picture out of gratitude for his aid. It is estimated it would have taken twenty years of non-stop writing to produce the work without the illustrations or embellishments.
Qbgp TIL American women started shaving their armpits in 1915 because of advertisements in Harper’s Bazaar fashion magazine encouraging them to.
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w58M TIL The face of Yoda in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ was based on the face of Albert Einstein. So was, to a lesser extent, the face of E.T.