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TIL that Aztec kings wore cloaks made entirely of hummingbird skins—it would take about 8,000 hummingbirds to create an adult-size cloak.

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LklMv TIL Carl McCunn was flown to the Alaska wilderness to take photos of wildlife. The pilot never returned for him. His friends had a pilot fly out but Carl accidentally gave the signal for “all okay.” He survived for 8 months before killing himself instead of freeze or starve.
4Xo5X TIL a New York deaf man sued Pornhub for not providing closed captioning to all of their videos. Despite Pornhub's VP asserting that they do have a closed captions video section, the man's lawsuit specifically cites “Hot Step Aunt Babysits Disobedient Nephew" as a video that lacked closed captions.
w40o TIL in 1847 Robert Liston amputated a mans leg in under 2.5 minutes, operaterating so quickly he amputated the fingers of his assistant as well. Both later died from gangrene, and a spectator reportedly dropped dead from fright, making it the only known operation with a 300% mortality rate.
VMmlQ TIL of Joseph Trombino, a Brinks truck driver who survived the infamous 1981 Brink's robbery perpertrated by the father of current San Francisco District Attornery Chesa Boudin and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, only to die at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
XEn98 TIL that well before Nathan Phillips was in the spotlight of the 2019 Lincoln Memorial Incident, he was featured in the Skrillex and Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley music video, “Make it Bun Dem”, which has amassed over 450 million views.