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TIL - Falcons are more closely related to parrots than hawks or eagles

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0wJNA TIL that according to Welsh legends fairies used to ride corgis into battle
OGQK4 TIL of the metaphor of the "missing stair", where a problematic person in a community is discretely worked around and warned about, rather than openly addressed
BjML TIL there is a Cyrillic letter so rare it is only used in the phrase “many-eyed Seraphim”
axD0 TIL an animated movie about Vincent van Gogh is slated to be the first fully-painted feature-length film in the world (connecting 56,800 stop-motion paintings)
BAQK TIL that ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, isn’t called IOS because every language has a different abbreviation, so they made a reference to the greek word “isos”, which means “equal”.