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TIL that in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1984 a single yellow-headed amazone escaped from captivity, followed by a male a year later. Those two parrots have established a population of 60 birds, making them the biggest wild population of parrots in Europe

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7rX0p TIL that the Great Wall of China, stretching over 20,000 km (13,000 miles) and built over centuries, never effectively prevented invaders from entering China.
AMxB TIL a traditional West African Voodoo Village was founded near Savannah, GA in 1970. They have a king, no electricity or water, no English before noon, drink chicken blood & consider themselves a separate nation from the US
wLrW8 TIL that the infamous 1971 D.B.Cooper plane hijacking remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in commercial aviation history. The FBI officially suspended their active investigation in July 2016. The 60-volume case file is open to the public to read.
e0b5n TIL that in 1986 The Letterman Show filmed their 4th anniversary special on a plane. It was a TWA 747 flight from New York City to Miami.
Brk6e TIL that nearly half of the world’s twins are born in Africa. The small West African nation of Benin has the highest concentration of twins in the world while Japan has the lowest rate of twinning.