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TIL: In the wild, parrots can ‘name’ their children using specific patterns of sound.

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EwlP TIL former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once called poverty “a personality defect”
vP1A7 TIL ventriloquists have to carefully script their acts to avoid words with any "f", "v", "b", "p", or "m" sounds. These consonants require the lips to move, which would ruin the act.
yrZV TIL that “Jake from State Farm” actually works at State Farm and his name is actually Jake.
JY5mk TIL in the days following the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan called the killing "a great tragedy that began when we began compromising with law and order and people started choosing which laws they'd break."
GAGE1 TIL that the famous "We Can Do It!" poster was barely known during WWII. It was displayed for two weeks as part of a series of posters to boost worker morale in one company's factories. It remained virtually unknown until the 1980s when it was rediscovered in an article about the National Archives.