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TIL approximately 25% of all black swan pairings are between homosexual males. Some couples are so eager for cygnets that “They steal nests, or form temporary threesomes with females to obtain eggs, driving away the female after she lays the eggs”.

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Aj8l TIL more people are executed for witchcraft in modern times than in previous centuries. In Tanzania alone 20,000 ‘witches’ have been brought to death in the past 20 years.
vP0L TIL humans are actually more skilled at identifying caricatures of people than photographs of them.
dk6E TIL the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, a major advocate for peace and coexistence between white settlers and Native Americans, was twice attacked by American troops despite explicit agreements of non-hostility, resulting in the death and mutilation of he and at least two hundred Cheyenne villagers
X0obr TIL the UNLV Running Rebels hold the NCAA basketball final records both for points in a game and margin of victory for their win over Duke in 1990
VBOYm TIL between 1999 and 2014 the British Post Office, due to an accounting software glitch, criminally prosecuted 736 people who ran post office branches for theft and false accounting. With many left bankrupt or in prison, despite the Post Office becoming aware of a fault in the system in 2010.