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TIL: Some birds use cigarette butts as an insecticide for their nests

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G4xQ TIL an Air Canada passenger flight took a detour and dropped from 37,000 feet to 4,000 feet to help find a stranded yacht off the Australian coast. It took the passengers 25 minutes after the emergency beacon was activated to locate the yacht.
NXp71 TIL someone bought a domain name (GutHib.com) just to say that you spelled GitHub wrong.
XELMj TIL about Mary of Woodstock, who was made a nun at 7, went to live by herself in comfortable private quarters, and travelled widely around the country with no husband or kids. Every year she was given the equivalent of $250,000, twice the usual allowance for clothes, and 5,120 gallons of wine.
69NNJ TIL of the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup in Ireland, where a horse was trained for an obscure race, was given starting odds of 20-1, the trainer then had a friend block the only phonebox near the racecourse pretending to talk to a dying aunt, so the bookmakers couldn't communicate. He made €1.7(afi)
VMdbm TIL In 1842, Abraham Lincoln publicly chastised James Shields in the course of a debate about banking in Illinois. The ridicule led Shields to challenge Lincoln to a duel in which the victor took the opponents' life and pride. On the duel-day, they called a truce with the bystanders' encouragement.