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TIL that TIL stands for "today i learned" and not "throwback in life"

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4XgKo TIL: In 2016, Facebook livestreamed a murder in Chicago but later refused to take the video down "because it doesn't violate the company's community standards".
R7KRQ TIL Mongolian custom called ´coaxing ritual for camels´, when a female camel is rejecting her new-born calf, or to adopt an orphaned calf. The rite consists of playing music, the melody gradually induce deep feelings and so touches the female camel making her less aggressive and even cry.
6E4DY TIL J.R.R Tolkien's first identifiable Middle-Earth character was a Half-Elven Mariner named "Eärendil", who came from his poem "The Last Voyage of Eärendil" written in 1914.
9YlGD TIL When a flock of starlings are murmurating (flying in those shape-shifting patterns) Each individual birds' movements are copied by 7 of its closest neighbours, and each of those neighbours' movements affect 7 more and so on through the flock.
Wd1A TIL that there’s a spirits company that first pours every drop of its booze over the breasts of top Playboy models before bottling. [NSFW]