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TIL a partridge is a ground-nesting bird with zero interest in pear trees.

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BMMK TIL Stephen Hawking has survived for over 50 years after being diagnosed with a disease that only 4% of people survive 10 years with.
e0PZE TIL about Sensory-Specific Satiety. This is the declining satisfaction felt when eating the same food, but a renewed interest in eating when exposed to a new food.
16DE4 TIL the Martini Bianco vermouth mixer drink just filtered white wine flavored with various Alpine herbs and sweetened with beet sugar.
awG1y TIL that Bethlem Royal Hospital was originally a shelter for the poor and accommodation for visiting clergy, before becoming the madhouse nicknamed "Bedlam", and is still a functioning NHS psychiatric hospital
v1ODr TIL that an African American secret service agent that guarded JFK was arrested and imprisoned on bribery charges in 1964. Coincidentally he was going to tell the Warren Commission that his fellow agents were intoxicated most of the time and had a lackadaisical approach to their job