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TIL that a group of flamingoes is called a flamboyance.

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Q8Wp TIL that the U.S has less than 5% of the worlds population yet nearly 25% of the worlds prison and jail population
a841J TIL In 1985 a private radiotherapy clinic in Brazil was abandoned, leaving behind a radiation source with 100 grams of Cesium-137. Thieves stole the container in 1987. Over 200 people were contaminated and 4 people died after it was broken into (and the glowing blue dust was spread around)
RoJ4 TIL a study found that a hundred high schools - about 0.3 percent of the nationwide total - account for 23 percent of students at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Of those hundred, all but six are private.
l4vK TIL Muhammad Ali was stripped of his heavyweight title, had his passport revoked and faced a five-year prison term for refusing to serve in the U.S. Armed Services at the height of the Vietnam War. “I ain’t got no quarrel with those Vietcong,” he said. “They never called me n****r.”
d8KGr TIL During the Winter War, Finns used mannequins posing as officers to draw fire from Soviet snipers. The Finns would then return fire with the Lahti L-39, a 20 mm anti-tank rifle.