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TIL a wildlife park in the UK took in five parrots during the pandemic that have a healthy NSFW vocabulary and have taught other parrots to swear. Zookeepers are concerned that they could have up to 100 parrots who know how to swear and would require all sweary parrots to be taken off display.

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