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TIL Winston Churchill taught his parrot to say ‘Fuck Hitler’ and 'Fuck the Nazis’

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6Yk8 TIL the actor who played the farmer in the movie Babe decided to go vegan after working closely with the “extraordinary animals” in the film.
1pWX TIL a “laughing heir” is distant relative who inherits a deceased person in the absence of any closer relatives. Being so distant from the deceased they don’t feel any anguish over their death, only joy at learning they will be receiving a surprise inheritance.
p8MQb TIL that old cruise ships like the Titanic had black hulls to hide coal dust
yQPop TIL that the jeweled cockroach wasp injects a venom into a cockroache’s brain to make it lose its escape reflex, the roach then willingly follows the wasp to its nest, where the wasp lays an egg onto the roaches chest that will subsequently eat the weak-willed roach alive until a new wasp hatches.
LQXed TIL that the inventor of chiropractic said the idea came to him during a seance, from the ghost of a doctor who had died 50 years earlier.