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TIL: Parrots love to get high and often become addicted to opium

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j0Yj TIL Louisiana ban universities from using public funds for “communistic or atheistic” activities
rR7w TIL that during WWII Boeing camouflaged their production plant by building a fake town on the roof.
loG0K TIL Chen Si a Chinese man who has stopped more than 300 people from committing suicide off the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing, China.
lo1y1 TIL that after making an unsuccessful attempt on Franz Ferdinand's life Nedeljko Čabrinović tried killing himself by swallowing a cyanide pill then jumped into the nearby river finding that the cyanide pill was defective and that the river was only 4 inches deep. He was immediately arrested.
j6BEX TIL there was a Hobbit-like tribe of humans called Homo floresiensis who grew to no more than 1m tall. They lived 190,000-60,000 years ago on the island of Flores, Indonesia and have not been linked to homo sapiens anywhere else in the world.