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TIL Baby Owls Sleep Face Down As Their Heads Are Too Heavy

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nWV6G TIL Australia has snow, ski resorts, the Australian Alps and a higher rate of hypothermia deaths than Sweden.
BrLpW TIL about Roman soldier Pantera. In Celsius' "The true word" Jesus was depicted as the result of an affair between his mother Mary and this soldier. Both the ancient Talmud and medieval Jewish writings reinforced this notion, referring "Yeshu ben Pantera", which means "Jesus, son of Pantera"
GA5W4 TIL The first Presidential Car to pass Secret Service demands was the Sunshine Special - a V12 1939 Lincoln Model K limousine that was used as the official state car by United States presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman which cost only $108,426 in 2023 dollars.
0ddrj TIL that in 1989, a group of Army Rangers got into a gunfight with the Crips. Somehow, nobody was killed.
ymp8 TIL when Australian driver Alan Jones won the 1977 Austrian Formula 1 Grand Prix, the race organisers didn’t have a copy of his national anthem to play at the podium ceremony (unaware that it was God Save The Queen). Instead, a drunk person played “Happy Birthday” on a trumpet.