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TIL George Takai was in a Japanese Internment Camp during WWII.

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QNEwk TIL the classic pink flamingo lawn ornament, commissioned by New England Plastics Co. and designed by Don Featherstone in 1957, outnumbered real flamingos 7-to-1 by 1993.
rLWo TIL that a man on death row in Oklahoma took a drug overdose on his execution day. Prison staff rushed him to a hospital and saved his life…then brought him back to prison and executed him.
VBrkp TIL that on 25/2/1991, the Patriot missile system failed at an airbase in Saudi Arabia, allowing a Scud missile to hit the airbase, killing 28. A build up of small timing errors caused by errors in the internal clock led to the system failing to detect the missile on time. A patch was issued on 26/2
epP4b TIL the Futurama theme song is made entirely of sampled music.
rNNm4 TIL hummingbird feeders need daily cleaning in hot weather bc nectar spoils in heat & sickens the birds. Several ways to protect their food from overheating include: place feeders in shade, freeze nectar into small cubes & fill feeders with them to delay heating, wrap in foil, use glass feeders.