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TIL Alex the Grey Parrot had a vocabulary of over 100 words and could distinguish seven colors and five shapes. He once asked what color he was, making him the first and only non-human animal to ever ask an existential question.

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65LJ TIL that during the film The Big Lebowski, the Dude consumes 12 drinks and smokes 5 joints. There is an entire community of people dedicated to watching the movie and mimicking the consumption of the exact same menu of food, alcohol and drugs. The Dude abides.
6EDGw TIL there is only one non-terrestrial geocache in existence, placed by Richard Garriott on the ISS in 2008.
40r5 TIL that women with high levels of toxoplasmosis antibodies were significantly more likely to have baby boys than baby girls. In most populations, the birth rate is around 51% boys, but women infected by this cat parasite had up to a 72% chance of a boy.
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