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TIL that hummingbirds are one of the few bird species that “pees”

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ADkxx TIL Facebook acquired Onavo VPN to track user's full online activity and app usage details. With this, they could tell Instagram's Stories crippled Snapchat Stories even before Snap made it public.
QNdKL TIL that on August 21, 1963, Aeroflot Flight 366 made an emergency water landing on the Neva River in Leningrad after both engines failed due to fuel exhaustion. The plane, which had been circling the city, narrowly missed bridges and all 52 people onboard survived.
16xa8 TIL the writers of Total Recall tried adapting The Minority Report into its sequel, depicting Quaid as the head of an organization that uses mutants with precognition abilities to predict and stop crimes before they happen. It was reworked into a standalone film after their company’s bankruptcy.
awZ9A TIL That Don Mclean's American Pie held the record for almost 50 years for being the longest song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 before Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" broke the record in 2021.
j66ln TIL the Māori name for France is Wīwī, derived from the French phrase "oui, oui"