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

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BM6y TIL Zoolander is banned in Malaysia
p8K5p TIL the American Charters of Freedom (Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill Of Rights) are stored in a 55-ton steel reinforced vault. In the case of danger like a nuclear war, the documents would likely be transported by air to a secure, undisclosed, underground location
xE1w TIL the T-shirt was invented in 1904 and marketed to bachelors who couldn’t sew or replace buttons
nWd0W TIL about Slow TV, a Norwegian television genre that broadcasts real-time, unedited footage of ordinary events, such as a 7-hour train journey or a real-time broadcast of wild salmon migrating to spawn.
mR1x TIL of neuroscientist James Fallon. While examining brain scans from both Alzheimer’s patients and violent psychopaths, he used his family’s scans as a control. One family scan displayed the structure of a psychopath’s brain. After breaking anonymity, he realized the scan was his own.