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TIL that hummingbirds are only native to the Americas.

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1a69P TIL after the Korean War, 333 South Korean prisoners of war detained in North Korea chose to stay in the country.
4km5N TIL Anna Jarvis started a petition to abolish Mother's Day in 1943. However, these efforts were halted when she was placed in the Marshall Square Sanitarium in West Chester, Pennsylvania. People connected with the floral and greeting card industries paid the bills to keep her in the sanitarium.
wLlEJ TIL in 1989 a plane flying over the Pacific Ocean experienced a malfunction, causing several rows of seats to be blown out of the plane, and the pilots were still able to make a successful landing.
B9Br TIL in the originally filmed ending of “I Am Legend,” Will Smith realizes he is the “monster” and the zombies have only been protecting themselves from him. The studio insisted on a replacement “happy ending”, which implies the discovery of a “cure” and nothing of the zombies’ humanity.
GYyQg TIL Redheads are more likely to have anxiety about, and avoid going to, the dentist because the same gene mutation that gives them red hair also makes them 20% more resistant to the effects local anaesthesia.