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TIL that ravens are the only birds to reconcile with members of their own species after fights to avoid future conflict

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781l7 TIL about john rogan, The second tallest man ever, who only weighed 200 pounds at eight foot nine, having a bmi of 12.8, who also couldn't walk and used a goat wagon as a wheel chair
wolG1 TIL a man named Max Herve-George has an insurance policy that lets him trade stocks based on last week's prices. It was known as the stupidest contract ever signed.
4Xjj6 TIL a tanner, John J. Loud, desiring a pen that could write on leather, invented the first ballpoint pen and patented it in 1888. This pen had a small steel ball which was placed so it could not fall out nor fall in but it still could rotate freely. Loud's invention then was not commercially viable.
oB8kA TIL United Airlines had assured a blind woman that they would help her off the plane but only after the other passengers had gotten off, before forgetting about her and locking the plane up with her in it after everybody else had left.
OGOEL TIL it is common to see Chinese surnames in the liner notes of reggae music, attesting to the continuing influence of Chinese Jamaicans in reggae music. Chinese Jamaican involvement in reggae began in the 1960s with Vincent "Randy" Chin, his wife Patricia Chin, and their label VP Records.