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TIL that cuckoo finches lay more than one egg in a victim’s nest to trick the host parent into fostering their young for them. When there are multiple eggs, the host parent cannot tell the fraudulent eggs apart from its own

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nG6r TIL President Hoover asked every American to turn off their lights for 1 minute in October 1931, as a tribute to Thomas Edison and his recent death.
rrwW TIL Shakespeare and Cervantes died on the same date, 23 April 1616, but not on the same day.
VMGDQ TIL John Delorean, creator of the DeLorean car, invented the first muscle car when he, against the wishes/policies of GM who were trying to distance their brand from racing, put a v8 engine into the Pontiac Tempest
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