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TIL: There are over 50 billion individual birds in the world – about six birds for every human on the planet.

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nQQW TIL there’s a bridge in Scotland from which dogs frequently leap to their deaths, and no one knows why.
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JY5mk TIL in the days following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan called the killing "a great tragedy that began when we began compromising with law and order and people started choosing which laws they'd break."
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M7bOB TIL that to protect trade secrets, the glassmakers guild in thirteenth-century Venice would imprison a glassmaker’s family if the glassmaker left the city, and if he still didn’t return they’d send an assassin to kill him.