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TIL the pluckiest black-capped chickadees—the ones most likely to approach people for food—are usually lower-ranking members of their flock who take more risks out of necessity

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R7BK4 TIL After publishing his 1953 National Book Award winning debut novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison got to work on his second novel. In 1967 the manuscript of his already-overdue second novel was destroyed in a fire in his home. Ellison did not publish another novel before he died in 1994