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TIL the Australian Night Parrot is the most elusive and mysterious bird in the world - only three people have had a confirmed sighting in over a century.

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rRwVe TIL PayPal accidentally credited a man $92 quadrillion (the money was quickly removed). He was the richest man for two minutes.
v1pQr TIL of "hunger stones": the Central European practice of marking river levels with carved stones during droughts, to warn future generations that there will be a famine if the water level again gets low enough to see the carving. This has been done at least since 1115, and as recently as 2018.
ZJ4o TIL Kevin Mitnik served 8 months of his prison sentence in solitary confinement because the judge believed that if allowed access to a telephone Mitnik could start a nuclear war by just whistling into it.
R55d8 TIL The second TV Show to be created using 2-Channel Stereo sound after The Tonight Show was Voltron.
EBnx TIL that the English word oil comes from the ancient Greek word elaia, which means olive. So olive oil basically means olive olive.