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TIL that Alcatraz island is a federally protected bird sanctuary for a variety of different sea birds!

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4Xxeb TIL that Ken Anderson, the DA who framed Michael Morton for the murder of his wife and forced an innocent man to send 25 year in prison was while his son grow up being told his father was a murderer, only spent 10 days in jail for his crime.
bj4p TIL: Actor Christopher Lee was a cousin of James Bond author Ian Fleming and a relative of American general Robert E. Lee.
yVVba TIL: Pollen isn’t always yellow, it has a vast array of colours.
VBmxB TIL that in 2006, Banksy and Danger Mouse tampered with 500 copies of Paris Hilton's album by replacing the music and images. They depicted her with a bare chest and a dog's head and included songs titled "Why Am I Famous?" and "What Have I Done?"
xVB4k TIL that naturalist William Bartram described finding a "painted vulture" during his travels in Florida in the 1770s. No one else has ever found this supposed Florida bird. It's not known exactly what the "painted vulture" was—it could have been a subspecies or relative of the living king vulture.