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TIL African Grey Parrots can develop minds equivalent to that of children ages 4-6

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loKEN TIL Contrary to everything Jurassic park taught me. Velociraptor was about the size of a modern domesticated Turkey, had feathers and would have had trouble taking down a poodle.
kar7 TIL that one man had the world’s oldest living cat, 38 years old, and another that lived to be 34. It has been suggested that their longevity may be attributable to an unusual diet of bacon and eggs, asparagus, and broccoli
0wYxL TIL that there was a year (46 BCE) with 445 days. It is often known as "the year of confusion".
OGYO4 TIL that in the 1960s, the US roasted a 1440-acre swath of Wisconsin forest with ~10,000 curies of radiation for 6 months in order to determine how it affected the area. Most of the damage was confined to the area directly adjacent to the source, and the area is completely non-hazardous today.
Oo91 TIL some of the Koi San people of southern Africa hunt antelope by chasing them on foot until they get heatstroke. The antelope overheat before the humans do.