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TIL six of the worlds eight poisonous birds are found in New Guinea suspected to be due to an abundance of the toxic Choresine Beetle

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NXvGe TIL after professional football player Lyle Alzado became enraged, throwing a helmet at another player, the NFL enacted the "Lyle Alzado Rule” that disallowed the use of helmets as a weapon. Years later, Alzado was beset with brain cancer, believing it to be retribution for a profligate lifestyle.
NgX8 TIL that the NBA’s all-time leading scorer (with 38,387 points), Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, has become an author and prominent historian since retiring from the NBA as well as a cultural ambassador for the United States.
JPQ8 TIL AT&T made a working answering machine in 1939 but suppressed it, thinking public fear of being recorded would lead to widespread abandonment of the telephone.
KOm0G TIL that the psychology of color plays a massive role in the soft drink industry’s beverage color selection
9wNvr TIL new facial-recognition analysis appears to prove that Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers were, in fact, successful in their escape from Alcatraz.