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78EKx TIL the Kakapo, a large green flightless parrot from New Zealand, has a life expectancy of up to a 100 years.
E47P TIL the reason our toes wrinkle after being in the bath too long is to create “biologically inspired rain treads.”
lX1a TIL women in Paris were officially not allowed to wear trousers until this year.
LkEnV TIL that Jared Fogle, in a last ditch effort to get his conviction overturned, claimed to be a "sovereign citizen" and filed a motion rejecting the court's authority to convict him. It was rejected.
A9Dw TIL while Teddy Roosevelt was police commissioner in NY, he ordered about forty Jewish policemen to protect a German anti-Semitic preacher, with the goal to make him ridiculous.