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TIL free-ranging cats kill billions of birds annually in the US. They are the the #1 anthropogenic cause of death for birds

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l6Xr TIL Judit Polgár, the strongest female chess player of all time, was part of an education experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age
g4wX TIL of tim storms. he holds the record for the worlds deepest voice which goes lower than 20 hz, the deepest possible sound that the human ear can hear
EOJx TIL that the fingerprints of koalas are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be easily confused at a crime scene.
xVMP0 TIL During the first rehearsal for The Dark Night, Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker scared Michael Caine so much that he forgot his lines
GvYE TIL a pilot on Southwest flight 1248 quoted the movie “Airplane!” saying, “I picked a bad day to stop sniffin’ glue.” The plane then overran the runway, into a busy intersection, killing a 6 year old boy on the ground.