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TIL Michael Jackson has “hundreds” of unreleased songs that were discovered in his vault after he died

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oB4lo TIL To try to combat mosquito outbreaks, Disney World monitors coops of “sentinel chickens” that are stationed around the park. If a mosquito-borne virus shows up in the chickens’ blood, Disney doubles down on its bug-slaying efforts in the area.
E1lao TIL that the popular sports game Football Manager is cited as a factor in 35 divorce cases
l7RB5 TIL that Canadian serial killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer told her pastor that she had murdered four people and the pastor kept his promise not to turn her in. She would go on to murder two others.
P86w TIL that The Shawshank Redemption’s director and writer, Frank Darabont, was offered $2.5 million from Rob Reiner to let him write and direct it instead, and cast Tom Cruise as Andy and Harrison Ford as Red. Darabont refused, saying that this was his “chance to do something really great.”
BgK7e TIL the only animal considered to display true tripedalism (moving using 3 limbs) is the parrot. Specifically, their head is considered their third limb while climbing