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TIL a bald eagle somehow made its way to Ireland in 1987 and was so tired that it had to be returned via airplane.

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7yPO TIL On the set of Titanic, an angry crew member put PCP into the soup that James Cameron and other crew members ate, sending more than 50 people to the hospital.
6oel TIL nearly 200 years before turducken became popular, there was the Rôti Sans Pareil: a bustard stuffed with a turkey-goose-pheasant-chicken-duck-guinea fowl-teal-woodcock-partridge-plover-lapwing-quail-thrush-lark-ortolan-bunting and garden warbler, the last being just big enough to hold an olive.
YpnaB TIL I learned about the Pentagon's "Cafe Ground Zero." A hot dog stand in the middle of the pentagon that the Soviets believed housed the most top secret meeting room because satellite images showed U.S. military officers entering and exiting the hot dog stand at the same time every day.
mkXM TIL Marvel’s ‘The Avengers’ movie caused shawarma sales to SKYROCKET nationwide
jOZj TIL The Powerpuff Girls broke records for the most Beatles references in one episode.