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TIL that hummingbirds are only native to the Americas.

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OPj1 TIL America isn’t the fattest country in the world. Mexico’s percentage of obese people exceeds America’s. Even then there are more countries with far higher obese percentages than the both of them.
57xD TIL “Scientific” tests to determine if Marijuana kills brain cells actually asphyxiated test subjects causing brain damage due to lack of oxygen, not because of the marijuana.
DQxYj TIL Duck is considered a red meat by culinary standards.
KY0aQ TIL: TLC was the first all-female group to sell 10 million copies of an album - CrazySexyCool. But they weren't cool about making $50,000 each for the album while the record company got $75 million. So, they held Arista Records President Clive Davis hostage until the NYPD intervened.
eyJJ TIL that press sensationalism influenced the 1982 conviction of an Australian woman for murdering her baby, and after 6 years in prison she was totally exonerated, yet her plaintive “a dingo ate my baby” became joke fodder among American comedians.