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TIL In 1866, Henry Bergh — founder of the ASPCA — sued a group of sailors for mistreating the turtles they kept aboard as provisions. Newspapers around the country ridiculed him... which was exactly what he wanted.

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OvaR TIL of the Burkitshi - nomadic hunters of Mongolia. They capture a golden eagle at the age of four, and train it to become a hunting partner. The Burkitshi live and sleep with the eagle for ten years, and then it is released back into the wilderness before death.
6EWPl TIL that US Cellular CEO have banned exchanging emails between employees on Fridays to emphasize on teamwork and face to face meetings. One employee learned that a co-worker who he thought was across the country was, in fact, across the hall.
gMlgy TIL The fear of palindromes, aibohphobia, is, quite sadistically, a palindrome.
OZNa TIL the Haymarket Affair (1886) was a protest over labor and police brutality. It ended in a bombing, police firing into crowds, and the wrongful sentencing of 7 men to death.
wo5yJ TIL ruminates like cows and camels gain protein by digesting some of the microbes that grow in their stomachs.