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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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X0vrP TIL that Clark Gable - The Hollywood Golden boy had a secret daughter! It's kind of crazy story....
e01yD TIL that the Wollemia nobilis is considered so rare, scientists have to take a blindfolded helicopter ride if they want to study it, in order to keep the location of the trees a secret.
MX6B TIL that the fibonacci sequence can be used to roughly convert between miles and kilometers. If the nth term is a number of miles, the nth+1 term is roughly how many kilometers it is.
mxgXo TIL Pat Morita (Mr. Miyagi from Karate Kid) started out doing stand up comedy. The mother of Lenny Bruce was his manager
R5NMw TIL Woodpeckers ram their bills at 25 times per second with 1200g’s acceleration.This research refutes the theory that their skulls act like helmets, absorbing the shock of impact. Instead, they minimize it to strike harder