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TIL that in 2019, Brazilian pоlіce seized a parrot who had been taught to alert criminals to pоlіce operations by shouting: "Mum, the pоlіce!" After being seized, the parrot didn't cooperate with the pоlіce, staying completely silent and not saying anything

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lXlG TIL in the earlier versions of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf has Little Red undress and get in bed with him, but she tricks the wolf into sparing her by saying she has to poop, thus needing to get out of bed.
XYBR TIL there is a German word for the unhappy feeling one gets when comparing the actual state of the world, and all its problems, to one’s idea of how the world should actually be. That word is Weltschmerz or “world pain”.
OoY71 TIL in the 1940s, AT&T sued Harry Tuttle for inventing the Hush-A-Phone—a device that silenced phones from eavesdroppers. AT&T argued the “device hadn’t been installed by their company” and the FCC voted in AT&T’s favor, but Tuttle continued to fight the case in open court and eventually won.
AMG4 TIL there is an entire market behind the scenes of buying and selling the blood that selfless people donate. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry.
oAVW TIL that after being seriously burned in her disappearing scene in Munchkinland, Margaret Hamilton (The Wicked Witch of the West) refused to do a subsequent scene requiring her to ride a smoking pipe broomstick. Her fill-in was hospitalized for eleven days with serious burns when the pipe exploded.