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TIL that crows (and other corvids) can remember individual human faces, hold grudges against us, and teach their crow brothers and sisters to dislike us too.

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E14a7 TIL Joesph Bramah stared a lock company that was famed for their resistance to lock picking. The company had a “Challenge Lock” where they would pay whoever could pick the lock 200 guineas. The challenge stood for 67 years until Alfred Hobbs finally picked it in 51 hours, spread over 16 days.
7apr TIL that the “high five” has only existed since about 1977 and is thought to have originated in baseball.
5Ye9n TIL that in 1962, the CIA stole an entire Soviet Arctic research station by snatching it from the ice with a hook extended from the back of a plane.
BrOgk TIL about Cliff Young. An Australian farmer who, at 61 years old, won an "Ultramarathon", running for over 5 days without stopping.
E9Bd TIL - President Franklin D Roosevelt received a truckload of Yuengling beer delivered to the Whitehouse the day prohibition was ended.