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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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nebZB TIL An ancient form of cheesecake may have been a popular dish in ancient Greece even prior to Romans' adoption of it with the conquest of Greece. The earliest attested mention of a cheesecake is by the Greek physician Aegimus (5th century BCE), who wrote a book on the art of making cheesecakes.
vLDr TIL the man who discovered Pluto had his ashes placed inside the New Horizons space craft that just passed Pluto
m1LmR TIL James Cameron earned $350 million from Avatar (2009) which is the biggest financial haul ever for a movie director from a single film.
PYR7w TIL Freud’s dog, a Chow Chow named Jofi, would often sit in on his sessions as a calming effecting on his patients. She was also good at keeping time, only getting up when the session was over.
4VEw TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.