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TIL The Resplendent Quetzal was once thought impossible to keep in captivity as it killed itself or died soon after being captured or caged, until a zoo in Mexico successfully kept and breed them in captivity.

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9wZyX TIL of the Y2k38 Problem. Similar in nature to the Y2K bug, when the year 2038 strikes 03:14:07 UTC on 19 March, computers still using 32-bit systems to process the date and time may not be able to cope with the time change and could revert to the year 1901.
8ReX TIL of Captain Canuck, a superhero who lives in the futuristic world of 1993, where “Canada had become the most powerful country in the world.”
x68Ao TIL John Tyler and his second wife (Julia Gardiner) had a Presidential male canary named Johnny Ty who died of a heart attack after they tried to breed it with another male canary
X0gjE TIL that the "Hand of Faith" is one of the largest gold nuggets ever found (at 875 troy ounces/27kg) that still exists. It was discovered in Victoria, Australia and sold to the Golden Nugget Casino chain for over $1 million
XJRj TIL in 1799 a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina & used it as a doorstop. It was gold.