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TIL that lions mate roughly 3,000 times per cub

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ALbg TIL During World War I, France posted parrots at the top of the Eiffel Tower to warn against incoming aircraft. With the potential to hear up to a 20 mile radius, the parrots would squawk if they detected planes within Paris’ airspace.
oRBrA TIL that while Queen Elizabeth II is titular head of the Commonwealth, and her designated successor is her son Charles, Prince of Wales, the title is not strictly speaking a hereditary one.
kOQJ4 TIL most black olives are just unripe green olives treated with a solution to darken them
NXgYe TIL that the Secret Language of Fans was more a marketing ploy to sell fans, then an actual language of signals that women used and men understood.
DQEPp TIL Alan Turing's father was in the Indian Civil Service and his mother was the daughter of the chief engineer of Madras Railways. Alan's parents met and married in India, although he was born in the UK.