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TIL ornithologist Ted Parker was able to identify over 4,000 bird species by their songs alone. He died in a plane crash at age 40 surveying the Ecuadorian forests.

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0nDL TIL that Owen J. Baggett, an American pilot in WW2 became the first pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft while parachuting with an M1911 pistol
wLwE TIL A professor died from from dropping a few drops of a substance called Dimethylmercury on her glove when conducting an experiment.
9YG46 TIL Gina Torres (Dozer’s widow in Matrix Reloaded and of course Zoe from Firefly) is a classically-and-jazz-trained mezzo-soprano and speaks fluid Spanish
JbWv TIL The “Red Queen” is not another name for the Queen of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland.” They are actually two separate characters. The Queen of Hearts is from “Alice in Wonderland,” and the Red Queen is from the sequel “Through the Looking Glass.”
b9yeN TIL Hubei has the largest primary forests remaining in Central China and provides habitat for many rare animal species, such as the Chinese Giant Salamander, the Golden or Sichuan Snub-nosed Monkey, and the Asian Black Bear. From 1884 to 1889 more than 500 new species were recorded from the area