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TIL that Jason Segel, known for his roles in How I Met Your Mother, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You, Man, and other films, wore a Superman cape underneath his clothing until he was 13. He did so, he has said, "just in case there was trouble."

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nrdB TIL A budgie named Puck is listed in the Guinness World Book of Records as “The bird with the largest vocabulary in the world ” with a vocabulary of 1728 words. Also he wouldn’t just mimic, he would often create his own phrases and sentences.
e07oJ TIL - You can skip piracy warnings and trailers on a DVD by pressing STOP -> STOP -> PLAY
Z8R0R TIL about Attarsiya, a military leader from what would become Greece, who lead an army against the Hittites, in the first recorded instance of European vs. Near Eastern war
b9BEN TIL that when you sleep in a new environment your brain stays half-awake
b96YZ The rise of Genghis Khan and the Mongolian empire was responsible for the annihilation of an estimated 40 million people, but there were clearly more than a few conquests off the battlefield as well. A 2003 study suggests that 1 in 200 men are direct descendants of Genghis Khan. Studies of Y-chromosome data found that almost 8 percent of men living in the former Mongolian empire carry nearly identical Y chromosomes. Researchers believe this is attributed to a unique set of social selection circumstances put into play by the spread of the Mongolian empire. In this week’s "Today I Learned," research scientist Albert Lin elaborates on Genghis Khan as a romantic.