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TIL a U.S. Army veteran used his military sharp-shooting skills to rescue a bald eagle which had been hanging upside down in a tree for days with its leg tangled in a rope, 70 ft from the ground; Jason Galvin fired 150 shots from a .22 rifle with scope at the rope until it released the eagle.

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X0geQ TIL: The seasonal flu H1N1 that travels the world is now thought to be an attenuated strain of the original H1N1 Spanish Flu virus that caused the 2nd most deadly pandemic killing millions after WWI. The earlier hypothesis was that it contained genes from both the Spanish Flu and a seasonal virus.
e00PJ TIL that Bob Segar's band, the Silver Bullet Band, originally didn't like the song "Old Time Rock and Roll"; the band didn't think it was "Silver Bullety" enough.
VM4V0 TIL that the city of Nice (France) has been firing a cannon shot everyday at noon since 1861, a tradition set by Scottish officer Thomas Coventry More who used the cannon shot to warn his wife he was coming for lunch.
0dbrA TIL in 2005, three lions rescued a girl of 12 kidnapped by men who wanted to force her into marriage, chasing off her abductors and protecting her until she was rescued by Ethiopian police.
Y7DOv TIL most of the tools to crack games on game consoles such as the N64, Switch, Playstation, Xbox, etc., are in large part thanks to the efforts of a French engineer named Max Louarn. He spent 5 years from prison from 1994 to 1999 and is currently wanted for various crimes in the U.S.