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TIL: the Budgerigar, aka a parakeet, is the 3rd most popular pet in the world, after the domesticated dog and cat

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X05L6 TIL Bill Gate's was born a little over six months after Albert E'instein passed away.
lo1m1 TIL The movie "Final Destination" was originally intended to be an episode of The X-Files.
BgO6b TIL Fannie Flagg, author of the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, played Nurse Wilkins in the 1978 movie Grease
6Em8X TIL one of the reasons why Northern Cheyenne reservation traditionalists oppose coal mining on the reservation is that the 1700s Cheyenne mystic Sweet Medicine prophecized that mining the "black rock" would change the tribe forever.
rRNGM Frozen in time, Franz Josef Land is one of the last lingering remnants of the truly wild Arctic. The remote and nearly uninhabited 192-island archipelago is renowned for its biodiversity, which includes polar bears, walruses, bowhead whales, belugas, and narwhals. The intensifying impact of climate change, however, nearly turned this serene environment deadly for National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala and his crew.