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TIL that blue jays go bald in last August after seeing a bald lil dude eating out of my bird feeder (they only shed their head and neck feathers)

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oBrDW TIL that President Roosevelt's dog, Fala, was so well known to Americans during his presidency that American soldiers during the Battle of the Bulge would ask each other what the president's dog was named in order to prove that they weren't Germans in disguise.
8app4 TIL that in this picture taken 3 years ago, the combined net worth of these internet/tech executives were worth $200B. Today, just the two people at the front ends (Mark Zuckerberg & Jeff Bezos) are combined worth over $220B.
468N TIL that the words in the song “do re me fa sol la si’ came from an old language that comprised of only 7 syllables. "Words could be sung, or played and since the language could also be translated into the seven colors of the rainbow, sentences could be woven into a textile as a stream of colors.”
VBdV8 TIL that earthworms have "completely scrambled" genomes, and belong to the taxonomic class Clitellata.
wpGJ TIL There is only one pig in all of Afghanistan. His name is Khanzir, which is Arabic for pig, and he lives in the Kabul Zoo.