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TIL that roosters have build in ear protection to prevent them from going deaf from their own crowing

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X0Am8 TIL in 1925, a forger convinced Portugal's money printer to make him 200,000 bills, worth ~1% of Portugal's GDP. They were easily laundered, since they weren't actually counterfeit. To cover his tracks, he started buying a controlling interest in the Bank of Portugal, but was caught. He was 28.
N7AKN TIL that about 3% of Antarctic Ice is penguin urine!
4XMkN TIL the THX sound from the opening credits of movies has a name
epeMg TIL a family in Georgia claimed to have passed down a song in an unknown language from the time of their enslavement; scientists identified the song as a genuine West African funeral song in the Mende language that had survived multiple transmissions from mother to daughter over multiple centuries
AN9Yw TIL the average American now consumes roughly the same amount of sugar in a day that the average Palaeolithic human consumed in a year (~20 teaspoons)