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TIL Ostriches are the only living birds that pee and poo separately.

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7rZgP TIL a British parrot went missing and turned up four years later in California, minus an accent and speaking Spanish. Instead of taking his pet back, the original owner let the adopted family keep it.
Me0KV TIL about Zakynthos, a Greek island that hid it's Jewish residents who otherwise would have went to Auschwitz. It is Europe's only complete surviving Jewish community during the Holocaust.
WkN0L TIL That Frank Sinatra regularly tipped waiters, busboys and chefs $100-200 each. However, he had a fearsome temper in restaurants. He would throw food against the wall if he didn’t like how it was prepared, and would throw drinks if he didn’t like how he was treated.
ADRD7 TIL: Chase Bank and J.P. Morgan & Co helped Germany in WWII by allowing Nazi sympathizers to purchase Marks (known as Rückwanderer) with dollars to fund the war effort. The banks also turned over their client lists to the Nazis who in turn used it to recruit spies in the US.
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