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TIL squirrels are opportunistic predators, and will eat birds

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A8do TIL 34% of black males in Alabama have permanently lost their right to vote due to prior convictions
OGbxY TIL the oldest currently active missing persons case in the United States is almost a century old: the October 1926 disappearance of Marvin Clark from Portland, Oregon.
NEb8 TIL that the Internet Archive offers a huge collection of classic MS-DOS games, which can all be played directly in the browser
wLYPE TIL a coin left at the grave site of a U.S. veteran is meant as a message to the deceased soldier's family that someone has visited the grave to pay respect. Leaving a penny means you visited, a nickle means you trained at boot camp together and a dime means you served together in some capacity.
yQb6v TIL During the New York City Draft Riots of 1863, Leonard Jerome, famous wall street speculator and maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill, defended the New York Times office building with a Gatling Gun.