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TIL that Andrew Jackson's grey parrot Poll attended his funeral, and "commenced swearing so loud and long as to disturb the people and had to be carried from the house.”

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lo5lG TIL Nara was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784 CE. The Nara Period produced some of the most important temples still in use today, including at Todaiji, the largest wooden building in the world at that time, which still houses the largest bronze statue of Buddha ever made
oBxjr TIL that in ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey to attract flies away from the pharaoh.
R9w9 TIL A man named Charles Holden picked up a hitchhiker, got into a fight with him and ditched him ½ mile away from his house. Later this hitchhiker walked up to a house and killed an elderly woman. This woman was Charles’ mother. The hitchhiker didn’t know they were related.
7rW6x TIL In 2008 a British man traveling to Dubai was sentenced to 4 years in prison after being caught with 0.003g of Cannabis, Which was stuck to his shoe.
d8Agj TIL that in 2015 a huge 2100 foot (640 meters) wide human skull-faced asteroid, nicknamed the “Halloween Asteroid”, zoomed past Earth on Halloween. It completes one rotation every 2.94 hours, and will be seen again in November this year.