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TIL there is a computer keyboard with buttons like “super”, “hyper”, and allows to type over 8000 different characters.

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1aA9D TIL that William Moore, a co-author of The Roswell Incident (the book that inspired the idea that the Roswell crash was an alien spacecraft), admitted in 1989 he lied to the UFO community for years in accordance with the US Airforce to deceive civilians
R7W66 TIL: 'Budgie' & 'Parakeet' can refer to the same small Australian parrot, the Budgerigar. In nature it is mostly green, in captivity blues, whites & greys are also bred
d8XRd TIL in 1941, the world's largest seed bank (created by botanist Nikolai Vavilov) was housed in Leningrad. As the Germans surrounded the city causing massive starvation, Vavilov's scientists refused to eat from the collection, slowly dying of hunger as they maintained 16 rooms of edible plants.
vdZK TIL that Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, both broke nyc teenagers in love with the theatre, shared single tickets to local plays and traded off at intermission, filling the other one in on the plot so far.
p8JQ4 TIL The song "Africa" by Toto is forever playing somewhere in the Namibian desert