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TIL about The Bee Hummingbird, the smallest bird in the world

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Rrn8 TIL Queen’s “We Are the Champions” was scientifically proven to be the catchiest song in the history of pop music
X079D TIL so many Royal English babies died that when Alfred of Great Britain died at age 1 in 1780 there was a policy against mourning the deaths of Royal children under age seven.
nOno TIL One minute each night, skyscrapers, tugboats, hotels, a yacht club and police cruisers send a blinking goodnight message to sick kids inside Hasbro children’s hospital Providence. R.I.
jNXGN TIL Cassandra was a woman in Greek mythology cursed to utter true prophecies, but never to be believed
b6nQj TIL that James Barrie lost his 13-year-old brother in an accident as a kid. To comfort his mother, he started speaking and acting like his brother, and his mother always treated him as if he was his dead brother. Thus, Barrie later wrote a novel about a kid stuck in eternal childhood: "Peter Pan".