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kJnam TIL the tiny island of Hatoma in the Ryukyu archipelago saved its only school by accepting students from mainland Japan who can’t attend a local school due to stress or mental difficulties
negZG TIL that falconers (and trainers of other birds of prey) will sew the eyelids of a wild caught bird shut, slowly allowing them to reopen to imprint themselves. The reopening process takes anywhere from a week to 40 days depending on the bird’s nature and the skill of the trainer
mxpDR TIL that David Koresh, leader of the Branch Davidian ranch cult in Waco was a songwriter and musician that attempted to make it big in Hollywood. (Fact #5 on list in link)
OW56 TIL The screenwriter for “Battlefield Earth” publically apologized for writing such a bad movie saying, “comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.”
x6XVB TIL that NASA is still paying Space Shuttle landing fees 11 years after the program ended.