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8ayD8 TIL that Dracula Parrots exist, also known as the Pesquets Parrot. Endemic to hill and montane rainforest in New Guinea. Despite their menacing appearance, they mainly live off fruit.
5ej9 TIL that Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln held a seance in the white house after the loss of their son.
1a8O8 TIL Shel Silverstein, author and comic, wrote Johnny Cash’s hit song “A Boy Named Sue”
yNjw TIL that Microsoft was forced to invest $150 million in Apple stock in 1997. This money revived Apple and allowed it to survive.
1ae88 TIL that in Europe in the 1700s, high heeled shoes were seen as a sign of upper-class status, and their length was regulated by authorities - ½ inch for commoners, 1 inch for the bourgeois, 1 and ½ inches for knights, 2 inches for nobles, and 2 and ½ inches for princes