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TIL about Nigel, the “World's loneliest bird' who fell in love with a concrete replica and died beside it.

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x6m8B TIL that it is an ancient Celtic tribe, settled in Thrace, which founded Sardica, present-day Sofia in Bulgaria.
JYEvm TIL They found that the bats' closest relatives aren't tree shrews, flying lemurs, or even mice (as has been proposed); instead, they formed their own group early on that may share a common ancestor with the mammals that eventually evolved into horses, pangolins, whales, and dogs.
GYED4 TIL David Bowie founded the “Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Men with Long Hair” when he was 17. The BBC interviewed him about it on which he stated “It's not nice when people call you darling and that"
9YdRr TIL of the Gish gallop, a technique used where you try to overwhelm someone with a rapid series of many half-truths and misrepresentations in a short space of time, which makes it impossible for someone to refute or fact-check all of them.
QNaxL TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien began a sequel to Lord of the Rings, called The New Shadow, about Middle Earth quickly forgetting about the War of the Ring, with the elites of Gondor beginning to support the evils of Mordor