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TIL Gary Numan is 13 days older than Gary Oldman

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Bgrlb TIL the hummingbird brain is 4.2% of its body weight, twice higher than the human brain at only 2% proportionally.They remember well their migration routes, and the yard and flowers they visited the previous year. Some consider them sacred, and in mythology they are healers helping people in need.
xVplw TIL The double-edged sword used by Thanos in Endgame was inspired by the ThanosCopter; a bright yellow helicopter with THANOS written on the tail that he piloted in early comics.
9M7m TIL that the Boston Marathon (2013), Virginia Tech Shootings (2007), Columbine Shootings (1999), Oklahoma City bombing (1995), and the Branch Davidian siege (1993) have all occurred in the third week of April.
MeX6W TIL an innocent man spent 17 years in jail until he found his doppelganger with the same first name in the same jail. He was then released.
0dpo5 TIL in 1990, a panel of the windscreen on British Airways Flight 5390 fell out at 17,000ft, causing the cockpit to decompress & its captain to be sucked halfway out of the aircraft. He survived.