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TIL that there is a bird called bittern that defends itself by mimicking a stick!

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5VKdn TIL that the gunfight between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt in 1865 is one of the few one-on-one gun duels of the Western conquest that occured as depicted in dime novels and westerns such as High Noon or the Dollar Trilogy.
wLR61 TIL that Fidel Castro has a sister, Juanita Castro, who lived most of her life in the USA after defecting from Castro's Cuba in 1964. She's now 88.
0rlj TIL in 2012, a skydiver was almost hit by a meteor in mid-air and caught the incident on film (x-post worldnews)
b66OQ TIL about Hypospadias, a birth defect in boys in which the opening of the urethra is not located at the tip of the penis.
lx5V TIL Wal-Mart was founded with the intention of selling American-made products at foreign made prices.