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TIL prosecutors considered, but ended up not, calling a husband's parrot as a key witness in a wife-husband murder case after the bird kept repeating "don't shoot" in the victim's voice; wife found guilty anyway.

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0dpbp TIL that for 15 years some of Canada’s largest grocery chains, including Loblaws, conspired to keep bread prices artificially high. During that time bread prices rose 96% compared to overall food inflation of only 45%.
L46V TIL that humans do to horseshoe crabs what conspiracy theorists claim aliens do to humans. We capture the crabs in huge numbers, drain their blood, and then return them to the ocean.
kOPnd TIL that 9 out of the 18 songs on Eminem’s “Marshall Mathers LP” make references to killing women.
mN5O TIL that if humans were capable of hearing frequencies lower than 20 Hz, we would hear our muscles moving.
JjWB TIL There is no mention of the color blue in The Odyssey, The Iliad and the Hebrew Bible because across all cultures, words for colors appear in stages. And blue always comes last.