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TIL Birds don't urinate. Instead, they convert nitrogen to uric acid.

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oBB6K TIL that Every Which Way But Loose (1978) once held the record for highest-grossing opening weekend of any film.
GYReG TIL that NASA has been launching jellyfish into space since the 90’s. Originally 2,478 were sent up and there were 60,000 orbiting Earth by the mission’s end 20 years later. The jellyfish that have returned reportedly ‘hate life on Earth.’
Yvgx TIL when Catholics were persecuted in England in the 1500s, priests holding secret masses would hide from search parties in “priest holes,” secret chambers within the house. As searches could last week, sometimes the priests starved or asphyxiated.
oRoX7 TIL in 2016 a woman was found dead in an elevator after being trapped there for a month. Servicemen who were called to fix a broken cable had banged on the door, but heard no response so they cut off the power & told the residents to use a different lift. They returned a month later & found her body
VMnjQ TIL Princess Diana was 19 when Prince Charles, 31, proposed to her. Because royal custom required Charles marry a virgin nearly every other woman of good lineage nearer his age was disqualified.