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TIL Giant, 50-Pound European catfish beach themselves in order to capture and eat pigeons.

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VMPJp TIL during the Korean War, American and Greek soldiers at Outpost Harry defended against multiple Chinese assaults of far greater numbers. At times being outnumbered 30:1, massive artillery bombardments and intense hand-to-hand fighting were daily occurrences. The Chinese failed to take the outpost.
DwoV TIL: The human brain has a memory capacity of approximately 2.5 petabytes (or 2.5 million gigabytes)
WkVEX TIL Experimental drugs, which are proven safe and effective when tested in animals, fail 80 percent of the time when tested in people.
GYKj5 TIL that Randy Johnson, an MLB pitcher known for accidentally hitting and killing a bird with one of his pitches on 3/24/2001, has a dead bird as the logo of his photography company.
6EOLw TIL about the Eggnog Riot. On 24th December 1826 more than a third of U.S. Military Academy cadets in West Point, New York, rioted after consuming eggnog with whiskey during a Christmas party.