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TIL After Captain Sullenberger’s heroic Miracle on the Hudson, NYC officials captured and gassed 1,235 Canada geese in an effort to prevent similar incidents.

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gkX7 TIL that, when Genghis Khan died in 1227, he ordered his burial site to be kept a secret. To this end, his heirs slaughtered anyone who set eyes on his funeral procession. They buried him in an unmarked grave and to this day no one has found him.
mwgY TIL that before “Video Game Violence” in real life, there was “Board Game Violence” that was a ‘problem among teens’
DQ7yv TIL goats have "accents"
0d841 TIL that Julia “Butterfly” Hill, an environmental activist, lived in a 1500-year-old California redwood tree named Luna, 180 feet (55 mm) off the ground for 738 days to prevent Pacific Lumber Company from chopping it down. Her efforts were successful in saving the tree.
Z8ZYB TIL that notorious mafia boss "Lucky" Luciano aided the WWII effort from his prison cell by ordering his men to protect the East Coast from foreign invasion and convincing his Italian mafia contacts to help the Allies during their invasion of Sicily