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TIL that the sound of the bald eagle used in movies is in fact a red tailed hawk, as the actual sound of eagles was considered not impressive enough

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Kex4 TIL a teen needing a heart transplant was rejected in part because of his history of juvenile detention. A media outcry resulted in his getting a new heart, and later he died fleeing after a carjacking/burglary/shooting spree.
571p TIL On September 1918, a wounded German soldier limped into Private Tandey’s line of fire. “I took aim but couldn’t shoot a wounded man,” said Tandey, “so I let him go.” Years later he discovered he had spared an Austrian Corporal named Adolf Hitler.
E1lZ0 TIL that Prince John William Friso (d. 1711) is the ancestor of every European royal house (Albania, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, UK, Yugoslavia)
mJgP TIL after French soldier Jean Bernadotte showed kindness to a few Swedish soldiers, he became so popular in Sweden that the Swedes decided to make him their king when a vacancy came up, despite him never having set foot in Sweden before. The House of Bernadotte rules Sweden to this day.
16aWr TIL about the island of Maui Nui or Greater Maui, which included the present day islands of Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, and Kahoʻolawe. All except Kahoʻolawe were a single island even during the last glacial maximum (~20000 years ago).