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TIL in 2002, Danish ornithologists reported that birds, especially Starlings, were imitating Nokia’s classic ring tone in their mating calls

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xNmk TIL a Toronto lawyer once fell to his death from a skyscraper when in an attempt to prove to some students that a glass window was ‘unbreakable’, he ran into it, only to have it pop out of its frame.
7r5Gb TIL a Colorado law requires employers to disclose their targeted pay range in job postings, setting pay expectations for applicants and allowing current employees to learn about this range comparative to their own.
4kOAJ TIL that the weight of cremated human adult remains is, on average, around 3.5% of the body weight of the deceased person.
8aWNZ TIL 11-year-old Grace Bedell wrote to Abraham Lincoln in 1860 saying she hoped he would be the next president but urging him to grow a beard. She stated "You would look a great deal better for your face is so thin".
oBPn8 TIL that in 2008 an app called "I Am Rich" was released for a day. It had absolutely no purpose, cost $999.99, and eight people bought it just to show that they could afford it.