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TIL budgie brains process speech in a similar manner as humans, which is why they can have such prolific vocabularies

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nBR7 TIL In 1996, psychedelics-advocate Timothy Leary had his death videotaped to be broadcast on the internet. The footage has never been released.
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yQXMp TIL that scientists discovered a cannibalistic ant colony composed entirely of worker ants in a abandoned Soviet Bunker in Poland. They had fallen down ventilation pipes leading into the bunker and reverted to cannibalism to survive. The scientists built a bridge that allowed most of them to escape.
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