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TIL about Lyrall's Wren, a flightless songbird hunted to extinction by lighthouse keeper Lyrall's pet cat

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Z8NZB TIL about the hunter-gatherer practice of "Insulting the Meat." To keep the best hunters from thinking themselves above the rest of the tribe, Ju/’hoan people insult the quality of the meat and lightheartedly mock the hunter who brought the animal down. The bigger the kill, the greater the insults.
e07RD TIL in 2004 while searching the Paris Catacombs police discovered a cinema in one of the caverns. It was equipped with a giant screen, seats for the audience, a fully stocked bar, and a complete restaurant. The source of its electrical power and the identity of those responsible remain unknown
VBBBG TIL that Harambe’s mother, only full brother, and two of his half siblings were killed when a tub of wet chlorine tablets was left by a space heater. The toxic fumes were blown into the gorilla enclosure and killed the four gorillas.
675J TIL the Yin Yang symbol was used on a Roman shield 700 years before it appeared in China.
nealP TIL that actor Adam Devine was almost killed by a cement truck as a child and had to relearn how to walk over the course of several years