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TIL that lots of different animals and birds like to take dust baths instead of normal water baths

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gMM6b TIL At the height of the siege of Sarajevo in 1994, Iron Maiden's frontman Bruce Dickinson and his band decided to smuggle themselves into the city and give a concert despite constant shelling and sniper-fire. When their arranged UN heli-transport bailed, they hitched a hike in the back of a truck.
pYajA TIL Nauru Island had twelve tribes. Two extinct tribes are Iwi, known for lice, and the Irutsi, remembered for cannibalism
1r54 TIL on 9/11 the fighters deployed to the flight that later crashed in PA did not have time to be armed, and both pilots were fully prepared to give their lives by ramming their fighters into the hijacked plane.
yVgmM TIL: In Switzerland, one of the world's base jumping hotspots, every year 1 in 60 base jumpers die. (source in german)
VM8XG TIL National Lampoon's Vacation was based on a short story called Vacation '58 by John Hughes, it ends with Clark Griswold shooting Walt Disney in the leg.