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TIL the most abundant bird in the world is the Red-Billed Quelea, there is an estimated 1.2 billion in the world with flocks in the millions.

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mxwlR TIL that the guy who played the psychopathic murderer in the movie "Panic Room" is a best-selling country music artist named Dwight Yoakam who holds the record for appearing the most times as a musical guest on The Tonight Show
WkP4Y TIL that the North America — and the USA in particular, has the world's most extreme weather, averaging more than 10,000 severe thunderstorm events per year, with more than 1,000 tornadoes.
JY6Y1 TIL that the reason there isn’t a Category 6 storm is because there isn’t anything left to destroy after a Category 5.
b6Rdj TIL when Freud developed the concepts of the id, ego, and superego in psychology, the original German words he used literally meant "The it, I, and over-I". Id, ego, and superego were the words chosen by English translators
Oo9J4 TIL viruses are not alive because they do not have cells, they cannot turn food into energy, and without a host they are just inert packets of chemicals. Then I learned they are not exactly dead, either: They have genes, they reproduce, and they evolve through natural selection.