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TIL squirrels are opportunistic predators, and will eat birds

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BN1x TIL that after 1812, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spent “the rest of their lives writing fascinating letters to each other.”
ODB1 TIL when Futurama has Stephen Hawking as a character they do not simulate his voice but actually ask him to voice act
W7GrA TIL that there was once a device to flatten neckties for ironing them.
5YGXp TIL of Gergely Barki. In 2009 while watching Stuart Little with his daughter, he noticed a painting that had not been seen in public since 1928. After finding the painting and putting it in the right hands. It was auctioned off for $285,000
QNJK6 TIL about Robert Evans, a church minister and an amateur astronomer who holds the record for visual discoveries of supernova. Utilizing nothing more than modest telescopes sited in his own backyard and an astonishing visual memory for star fields and galactic features, Evans has discovered 39 supern