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TIL that Hummingbirds are the only known species of bird that can fly backwards

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r7Md TIL When Youtube started requiring G+ accounts to comment, one of YT’s founders wrote on his his Youtube profile “why the fuck do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?”
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yBoV TIL that 1988 a chimpanzee received 400.000 votes in a mayoral election in Rio de Janeiro, coming in third place.