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TIL that Leonardo DaVinci used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.

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95dG TIL that Google made a detailed, interactive map of the galaxy in HTML5, just to see if they could.
Dovp TIL when Vera Menchick competed in an international chess tournament, Albert Becker ridiculed her entry by proposing that any player she defeated should be granted membership of the “Vera Menchik Club”. He became the first member of that club, and she the first female chess world champion.
69Rp7 TIL Jim Farley, the CEO of Ford, is the cousin of Chris Farley
Qa5e TIL passenger pigeons were once the most abundant bird in the world. John James Audubon once saw a flock that took three days to pass. Alexander Wilson reckoned that a flock he saw contained 2,230,272,000 individuals. The bird was hunted to it’s extinction, which came on September 1, 1914.
N7EVN TIL about an erotic fetish called vorarephilla. Which is a desire to get swallowed by somebody whole or to swallow somebody or something.