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TIL there's a metal band with a parrot as their vocalist.
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TIL a bill was proposed in 1910 to release hippos into the Louisiana bayous, both as a way to clear out invasive river plants and solve a critical shortage of meat. It was backed by Former President Roosevelt and The New York Times, which praised hippo meat as tasting like "lake cow bacon."
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TIL that a 17th-century French noble swordswoman beat men in duels, sang at the opera, and rescued her lesbian lover from a convent by burning it down. She was pardoned by the king.
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TIL in the 16th century the Pope declared Capybara’s as fish, so his followers could eat it, this stands to this day
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TIL that the moon's mass is about 1/81 of earth's mass and the pair behaves more like a double planet system
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TIL that during the Great Depression, companies would print colorful patterns onto flour sacks so that women can make dresses out of them