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TIL that California condor chicks were fed with condor puppets to increase egg laying rate and to avoid them imprinting on humans

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W7eyA TIL the 1st movie about Genghiz Khan's life was made in the Philippines by local director Mario Conde in 1950. As western censorship standards were not present at the time it was considered too graphic and violent by the Venice Film Festival in 1952
xVPmb TIL Socrates claimed all his wisdom came from a voice in his head that told him what not to do but never what to do. The reason he was arrested wasn't just that he did not believe in Athen's gods, but that he presented this voice in his head as a new god.
J17Jj TIL that after aborting their attempt to reach the North Pole. Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen would spend over a year stranded on Franz Josef Land before being rescued by Frederick George Jackson. A man Nansen had rejected from joining his North Pole expedition due to not being Norwegian.
YQJZ TIL that a woman who marries a prince will almost always become a princess, but a man who marries a princess will almost never become a prince.
wLkA8 TIL of Colonel Johnson who publicly ate a basket of tomatoes at the Old Salem County Courthouse in 1820 to demonstrate that they were not poisonous, as was supposedly commonly thought at the time.