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TIL that "Windfucker" Used to be a Common Term for Kestrels (Small Falcons)

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b9baQ TIL in 1987 Glad-Lock Bags financed a theatrically released movie called "Million Dollar Mystery", where the audience was handed a coupon outside the theater, and the movie had a tie in with their promotion, even having the character directly talk to the audience at the end about the promotion.
kO1Zd TIL a student at the University of Michigan changed his official preferred pronoun to “his majesty” in order to protest the policy.
awxmo TIL Neil Diamond & Barbra Streisand were friends who attended the same high school in Brooklyn where they were both members of the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club
xV7Bw TIL that the "China" that actually helped found the UN and sat on the Security Council until 1971 was the Taiwanese government. After this they started losing a lot of international recognition.
Y7PeP TIL of the PrOP-M. A twin set of rovers sent to Mars 26 years before Pathfinder.