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TIL Flamingos can drink boiling water

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ENaV TIL that in 1937 the Nazis held an exhibition of art you should dislike (“Degenerate Art”), the work of artists such as Ernst, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Picasso.
9VRQ TIL that Mao ordered billions of sparrows to be killed, this exacerbated a famine that killed more 20 million people.
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