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TIL The Peregrine Falcon is one of the most widespread land-based bird species, found on every continent except Antarctica.

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rRA7w TIL that the dots in the middle of words defined in the dictionary are to indicate where they should be hyphenated if you have to drop a line
8eLZZ TIL that in 1066, the last male member of the House of Wessex was elected King of England, but was never crowned due to the Norman Conquest that occurred shortly after.
41rN TIL in 1971 John List murdered his family to save their souls and arranged their bodies on sleeping bags. He then cleaned up, cut himself out of the family’s photos, turned on a religious radio station, and fled. Only after the lights in the house had burned out one by one did neighbors call police.
1Awd TIL on September 19, 1985, when Frank Zappa famously testified before Congress to protest the PMRC’s attempt to legislate and censor heavy metal music lyrics, Zappa compared the proposed legislation to “treating dandruff by decapitation”
gAQW TIL penguins were found in the arctic, but only from 1936-1949. They were introduced to replace the great auk, which had been hunted to extinction. The penguins survived the conditions well, but were also hunted to extinction. One was beaten to death by a local woman, whom mistook it for a demon.