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TIL there is a death metal band named Hatebeak whose vocalist is a parrot.

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ANX6g TIL the first unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, used for war were balloon carriers that were deployed on July 1849.
jJlp TIL that Johnny Depp got matching tattoos with Damien Echols (an innocent man who spent 18 years on death row)
wj57 TIL that there is still one US soldier that is being held captive by insurgents in Afghanistan and has been so since 2009. Release efforts to free him have currently stalled.
rQWy TIL handshakes were originally meant to make sure the person you were meeting wasn’t carrying a concealed weapon. Clasping hands proved it was empty, and shaking was meant to dislodge anything that was being hidden inside the sleeve.
16A1O TIL about the Castle Bravo nuclear test in the Marshall Islands. The explosion was twice as big as expected, causing radiation burns and sickness to residents of nearby islands. They never received compensation by the US government.