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TIL : Hummingbirds are one of the few bird species who pee. Other birds excrete urine in solid form, but hummingbirds consume so much water through the nectar they drink that their urine is liquid.

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R7x5a TIL Cult Toons was cartoon that ran from 1999 to 2000 on Cartoon Network. The show was a series of seemingly irrelevant and obscure clips from films and cartoons edited together for comedic purposes and had a very surreal and non sequitur quality. Often featuring Andy LeBeau suddenly exploding.
Br7je TIL "Apocalypse" (ἀποκάλυψις) is a Greek word meaning "revelation", "an unveiling or unfolding of things not previously known and which could not be known apart from the unveiling".
m1vNM TIL it is impossible to hum while holding your nose closed.
W79Xd TIL Marthe Cnockaert was Mentioned in Dispatches, awarded Legions of Honour and the Iron Cross for her WW1 service. The Iron Cross was for medical services to Germans while the others were for Allies spy work. Cnockaert was captured but not executed because of her Iron Cross, she survived the war.
E5JW TIL that the reason we say “redhead” instead of “orangehead”“ for hair color is because English didn’t differentiate between the colors until the 1540s, long after the term was coined.