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TIL that wild Parrots actually name their children, and that name sticks for life.

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5V97D TIL embalming was popularized in the United States by the need to transport the bodies of Civil War soldiers home for burial and especially by the display and transport of Abraham Lincoln's body after his assassination.
YpnVG TIL that the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster from WW2 Britain was never widely distributed during the war, and only became famous when a bookseller found an original poster in a box of old books in 2000, and commercialized it.
WkByd TIL of Chubut Province. A province in Argentina that speaks Welsh.
ANDkl TIL "Deep Throat" & "Last Tango in Paris," two massively influential x-rated films of the early 70s, cost more to attend than other films - a historical example of the demand-based pricing that is being considered by theater chains and studios
5Y5Z9 TIL that the last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor (age 97) says that what he witnessed in Europe still haunts him “every single day of his life.”