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TIL that actress Lili Taylor is an avid birder and sits on the boards of the National Audubon Society and American Birding Association

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PYagG TIL of the Harvard Jail House, which was put on sale by accident. Robert Pinckney bought the jailhouse for $1.50 and successfully sued the town for rent when they continued putting criminals in there. He then sold the place to Charlie McCarthy, a ventriloquist’s dummy, for $10,000 in war bonds.
nrEY TIL During a trip to Disneyland, David Rothenberg was drugged and burned alive by his father. He suffered burns on 90% of his body and survived.
gMj44 TIL "Strange Fruit" is a song recorded by Billie Holiday in 1939. It protests the lynching of Black Americans, with lyrics that compare the victims to the fruit of trees. The song has been called "a declaration of war" and "the beginning of the civil rights movement".
vPONK TIL actor Leslie Nielsen used to bring a fart machine to his interviews
b6o0p TIL the air lightning passes through after striking can be hotter than the surface of the sun