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DarkChimera t1_jdv1n9i wrote

Reply to TIL that seagulls not only eat other birds and animals, but are cannibals and often eat seagull chicks, even their own. by TrolleyMcTrollerson1

they're brutal. I was watching this tiny little gosling walk around with it's parents. There were lots of adult geese, but this was the only gosling left. tiny little grey ball of fluff.

Then out of nowhere a seagull swooped down, grabbed the gosling and flew off. The parents were running around panicked. It took me a few minutes to find out where the seagull went. It was a bit further away, eating the newly deceased little baby gosling.

This happened in front of two little kids too, who were just as enamored by the little gosling as I was.

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zeekoes t1_jdv1eu9 wrote

Reply to comment by FishAndRiceKeks in TIL that seagulls not only eat other birds and animals, but are cannibals and often eat seagull chicks, even their own. by TrolleyMcTrollerson1

Both rats and pidgeons aren't more dirty or disease ridden that other wild animals. Rats are actually really good at keeping themselves clean.

Both animals are however adapted to human civilisation and present in large numbers. This causes more contact between these animals and humans and thus many more instances in which disease can spread.

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mrnoonan81 t1_jdv0qtv wrote

Reply to TIL that method used to rob the banks in the movie The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) was the actual method "Friday Night Robber" Carl Gugasian successfully used for over thirty years. by Saint_Gut-Free

> on February 19, 1981, Gugasian shot responding police officer Sgt. Robert "Bo" McCallister, who passed away in 2019 from complications from the shooting injury.[4] Consequently, the death was ruled a homicide

TIL it can take up to 38 years to murder someone with a gun

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lesterburnhamm66 t1_jdv0nv6 wrote

Reply to TIL india is the biggest exporter of hairs in the world. India's hair exports account for 80% of the global market by pinkcheems

USA!

United States imports most of its Human hair from India, Indonesia and China and is the largest importer of Human hair in the World. The top 3 importers of Human hair are United States with 90,205 shipments followed by China with 65,332 and Myanmar at the 3rd spot with 10,190 shipments.

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