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TIL that the white bellbird is the loudest bird in the world.
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TIL that if someone is more than $2,500 behind in child support payments, they are unable to get a US Passport
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TIL Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on the plane that crashed and killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valenas and J.P. Richardson. He jokingly told Holly before the flight “I hope your ol’ plane crashes”
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TIL that Cinco de Mayo is in celebration of the day Mexico defeated the French, at the Battle of Puebla. Where France were trying to collect on previous loans Mexico stopped making payments on.
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TIL 903 miles from Benghazi under President Ronald Reagan in 1983, numerous warnings were ignored in the Shiite truck bombing that killed 220 US Marines in Beirut. The lead sentry had no bullets in his gun.
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TIL that in 1937 a 15-year-old growing up in St. Petersburg, Fla, was listening to a short-wave radio and picked up Amelia Earhart’s last radio transmission. She took notes and tried telling the authorities. No one believed her.