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TIL: Flamingos bend their legs at the ankle, not the knee

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VWn8 TIL your brain makes decisions before you realize it, according to researchers that used brain imaging to predict what choice people would make before they themselves were aware of having made a decision—prompting reconsideration of what we consider “free will”
YgOG TIL that the bodyguard Walter H. Thompson saved Sir Winston Churchill over 20 times including from shrapnel during the Blitz, plots by the IRA, Indian nationalists, Arab nationalists, Nazi agents, Greek Communists and the deranged.
b9p14 TIL About Juan Catalan, a man who spent six months in prison for murder until his lawyer found unused curb your enthusiasm footage which proves he was actually at a dodgers game with his daughter.
v1KWx TIL That on the 12th of September 1897 21 sikh solders held their own against 10000 enemy tribesmen at the battle of Saragarhi, killing 180 and buying enough time for the nearby British fort to prepare and suppress the insurrection. All 21 were given the Indian Order Of Merit.
0dNmN TIL the Mongols were not tribal people but had their own feudal-like institutions.