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TIL of the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird, who was recorded singing a mating call to a female that would never come. It died in 1987.

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BWJk TIL six years after the fall of Communism in Poland, consumption of alcohol grew to five times the average levels of Western countries, and one liquor store for every 300 people serviced the demand.
d8ZJZ TIL that doctors's handwriting kill about 7000 people a year
gZQy TIL that Martin Sheen has never officially changed his name and is legally Ramón Estévez. “It’s still Estevez officially. I never changed it officially. I never will. It’s on my driver’s license and passport and everything.”
r7Xw TIL that a German art student illuminated and bound the entire Silmarillion by hand like a 21st-century monastic scribe as his final project.
rA6d TIL that there is a 1 in 2000 chance that a comet will hit Mars in 2014, if it does it will change Mars’s climate into a hotter, wetter world.