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TIL: The Hawaiian State Bird, the Nene, is descended from the Canadian Goose, who got lost while migrating between Canada and Mexico and just decided to stay in Hawaii half a million years ago.

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VMkoB TIL Malden Mills, Inventor of the Popular Polartec fleece fabric, burned down in a fire in 1995. Instead of taking the opportunity to save money and move operations, the owner kept paying all workers while they rebuilt. it cost the owner over $25 million.
BDoK TIL Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary wrote a massive screenplay in 1987 called ‘The Open Road’, which would later get split into two separate screenplays called 'True Romance’ and 'Natural Born Killers’.
lo8B7 TIL not only do 1 in every 10 people have a tiny second spleen, called an accessory spleen, but also that if the main spleen is removed, the tiny second spleen can grow to function as a new spleen.
QJ1Wk TIL of the Sook Ching, a systematic purge of Chinese Singaporeans during the Second World War carried out by the Imperial Japanese Kenpeitai. Between 5000-25000 people are estimated to have been killed.
4N0J TIL that Denzel Washington has never done a sequel to any of his movies, a rare thing in Hollywood these days.