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TIL Harris Hawks will stand on each others backs when there's limited perch space. It's called back stacking

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b9BNZ TIL In Sri Lanka bread is delivered fresh starting at 5:30AM, in special TukTuks playing Beethoven's Für Elise loudly. While Für Elise is the song of choice for choon paan sellers, it’s not used exclusively, and some opt for Christmas carols, It’s a Small World, or other equally ubiquitous tunes.
NXG5M TIL that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was informed of Osama Bin Laden’s death before the rest of th world found out. Johnson also made a tweet where he stated that he was proud to be an American, 45 minutes before Bin Laden’s death was announced by the White House.
eJkg TIL Some mines are set to explode in response to changes in magnetic and acoustic fields. Sailors on minesweepers are not allowed to have wire coat-hangers because they could kill their magnetic signature and set off a mine.
kJo0g TIL of the Carolina Parakeet, which was once native to the US and went extinct in the 1910s. It lived as far north as New York and Wisconsin and as far west as Colorado
46K6 TIL Donated Bibles were sent to Romania and subsequently pulped into TP because there was a toilet paper shortage.