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TIL typical Australian bird kookaburras is a kind of kingfisher

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Z89v4 TIL You will eat at least 1 stick of butter (110g) when dining at a classic French restaurant, according to Anthony Bourdain
9YJOB TIL: Ultima Thule was thought to have a unique snowman shape but once the spacecraft arrived it revealed an even stranger flattened gingerbread man shape
8aXja TIL that black peppercorns are technically a dried fruit of a flowering vine, kind of like raisins
PYG5L TIL American chemist Alexander Shulgin personally tested hundreds of drugs, meticulously recording their effects in his lab notebooks. He is also credited with introducing MDMA to psychologists in the late 1970s.
MBKA TIL that the distress calls of baby mammals share elements across species: a study in the Canadian prairies showed that mother deers rushed towards recorded cries not only of infant deers, but also those of fur seals, dogs, cats and humans.