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TIL That Crows Can Count Aloud Much Like Toddlers.

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VBmVG TIL thay the first European appearance of Arabic numerals was in a document from the year 976 called "Codex Albendensis", so called because it was written in the Spanish town of Albelda de Iregua.
ANQyd TIL that in 1978 a massive fire hit Rio’s Museum of Modern Art (MAM), destroying works by Salvador Dalí, Picasso, Portinari, Matisse, Magritte, Miró and many others
kmQ7 TIL there is a city in Alaska called North Pole and a man whose legal name is Santa Claus sits on the city council
x6ed5 TIL that King Kong vs Godzilla started out as King Kong vs Frankenstein. Written by King Kong’s co-creator and animator Willis O'Brien, the script was stolen, sold without his knowledge and retooled for Godzilla. He considered suing but died due to the stress.
ddLK TIL camels were originally adapted to the arctic, not the desert.