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TIL President Andrew Jackson's pet parrot that had to be removed from Jackson's funeral service because it would not stop swearing

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awk5o TIL that Houston is the only major US city without single-use zoning. Retail, office enterprises, and homes are free to mix as the market demands.
LbGP TIL that in 2012, the entire village of Sodeto in Spain won the lottery… Except for one guy.
69147 TIL One of James Starley’s early inventions was a device that allowed a duck to pass through a gap in a fence, but stopped rats from following it, he would go on to invent the differential gear
Me7AA National Geographic Emerging Explorer Leslie Dewan is helping to revolutionize the nuclear power industry by designing a safer, more efficient alternative to today’s reactors.Conventional nuclear reactors only use about 3 to 4 percent of uranium’s accessible energy. The energy left behind is what makes conventional nuclear waste—radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years—so dangerous. Extracting more of the available energy reduces the radioactive lifetime of the waste. To this end, Dewan is helping to develop techniques that extract 96 percent of the available energy.
KYE7G TIL At age 90, Hugh Hefner's weight dropped to 90lbs and he made visitors sign a confidentiality agreement to see him. He was so sick that he missed his own Playboy Mansion parties and always needed a group of nurses everywhere