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TIL Birds can go grey with age.

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b6rV9 TIL while most Woolly Mammoth populations died out 14,000 to 10,000 years ago, the last population survived on Wrangell Island up until 4000 years ago, as the Pyramids were being built.
8epwX TIL about the Ma'kech, also known as a Living Brooch, where an ironclad beetle is painted, adorned with gemstones, and traditionally worn as living jewelry in parts of the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.
GY8A7 TIL about The Lainz Angels of Death. Four nurses aides from Lainz, Vienna who confessed to murdering 49 patients over 6 years (could have been as many as 200). All were convicted in 1991 and have been subsequently released.
wLmB8 TIL Wesley Snipes once dated Halle Berry and assaulted her so badly she now has a disability - she is 80% deaf in her right ear.
OGZn6 TIL only one US President (Woodrow Wilson) has had a PhD