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TIL Hummingbirds cannot walk or hop, they have evolved smaller feet to be lighter for more efficient flying

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0N6N TIL Hazrat Muhammad used to buy slaves just so he could set them free.
OWP1 TIL Sid Vicious, the bassist of the Sex Pistols, asked Lemmy Kilmister to teach him how to play bass with the words, “I can’t play bass,” to which Lemmy replied, “I know.”
9YYpm TIL of Peter Lemon, a Canadian volunteer in the US Army, who won the Medal of Honor for actions performed while stoned on marijuana in Vietnam
GY0kJ TIL The most performed living composer in the world for 8 years, & cited by Aphex Twin, Radiohead, Sigur Ros & others as influential, Arvo Pärt has been nominated for for 11 Grammy Awards & has won twice. His music has been used in many films, including There will be Blood, & Avengers
OoRL7 TIL A recent study revealed that a plastic bag, like the kind given away at grocery stores, is now the deepest known piece of plastic trash, found at a depth of 10,975 meters (36,000 feet) inside the Mariana Trench.