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TIL a cockatiel named Lucky was reunited with its owners after escaping 3 years earlier. It was found on a church porch and positively identified after it began whistling and dancing to the Andy Griffith Show theme song.

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yQjJM TIL many of the modern holiday standards, including "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", "A Holly Jolly Christmas", "Silver and Gold", and "Run Rudolph Run" were written by a single Jewish American songwriter named Johnny Marks.
nPV7 TIL the taco’s origin is unknown, but it was popularized by a group of “available” Mexican women called “the Chili Queens”.
M488 TIL that reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone changed the entire geography of the park: as elk were displaced, saplings that would have been eaten by elk were spared, riverbank erosion was brought under control, and streams and rivers shifted their courses.
yQRD8 TIL Maplewashing is a phenomenon that refers to the alleged tendency of Canadian governments, institutions, and media to perpetuate the notion that Canada is morally superior to other countries, thus sanitizing and concealing negative historical and contemporary actions.
GAveJ TIL that British military jets were used to bomb a stricken oil tanker in 1967 to burn the oil before it came to shore