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TIL Alabama has the most aquatic biodiversity of any place in North America and the Mobile Basin, the most diverse river system in the United States, is known as “the Amazon of America”

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4kKZo TIL a primary inspiration for communism for both Marx and Engels was the Native American Iroquois Indians, the Haudenosaunee.
VDY4 TIL falcons on the Moroccan island of Mogador catch small birds, then remove their flight and tail feathers and imprison them in crevasses in the rock to eat later.
W7Rd8 TIL that falcons are closer related to parrots and songbirds than to other birds of prey.
Oox5a TIL that Pablo Picasso carried around a revolver loaded with blanks, which he used to shoot at people who asked about the meaning behind his paintings
WAX4 TIL wild monkeys never encounter bananas at all ever unless they are around human habitation where bananas are or have been planted.