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TIL that there's a species of bird called the bar-tailed godwit that can fly non-stop for over a week!

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wN17 TIL the Hopi Nation boys cross country team has won 25 straight state titles using the same sacred training methods their ancestors have used for more than a thousand years in the exact same villages.
8e78b TIL: Brian Wilson penned, “Don’t Worry Baby” in response to The Ronnettes, “Be My Baby”
oROlK TIL 71 year old Bernard Gore was supposed to meet his wife and daughter in a mall in Sydney after first doing a little shopping himself. Instead, he exited a mall door leading to a stairwell labyrinth and was found dead 3 weeks later failing to find his way out.
DQlJ TIL Pocahontas was only 11 when she met the 28 year old John Smith
MepdV TIL of George Trepal of Polk County Florida. A recluse & an oddball, he poisoned his neighbors, killing the mother, by tampering bottles of Coke with thallium in 1988. He was irritated by loud music & noises by the teenage sons, the reason for doing the poisoning. He is awaiting the death row.