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TIL Chelsea Peretti’s (Gina from Brooklyn Nine-Nine) brother founded Buzzfeed

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KO5b6 TIL a bird that went extinct re-evolved itself back to existence
BrmNK TIL that Queen Victoria gave a random woman £3 for having triplets
9YoBG TIL that the Simpson’s intro song is a parody of the Jetson’s intro
VMbek TIL that during his military service in India, Sir Richard Francis Burton kept a menagerie of monkeys in an attempt to learn their language; his wife later claimed that he could speak over 60 words of Monkey
4LKo TIL that Norwegian oil company Statoil is selling one of their oil platforms. “Well kept 20 bedroom platform for sale. Panorama sea view and plenty of room for a helicopter.”