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TIL that an Australian bird, called the rainbow lorikeet, routinely gets drunk from spring to summer. The small birds drink the fermented crimson flower nectar from the Weeping Boer-bean tree. When intoxicated these birds make loud drunken noises which many people find bothersome.

woPZM TIL that Timothy Busfield played professional baseball while working in Hollywood. The 'Thirtysomething' and 'West Wing' actor pitched for the semi-pro Sacramento Smokeys from 1992 to 2000 with a 30-12 record.
APro TIL That in 1894 there was the “Great Horse-Manure Crisis” in New York City and London. Where some envisioned that in 50 years time the streets of London would be buried under 9 feet of horse manure. The problem was solved with the invention of the automobile.
n68o TIL when dogs defecate and urinate, they prefer to align their body axis with Earth’s north-south geomagnetic field lines.
Y79AZ TIL Unix time, a concept originating from the Unix operating system developed in the 1960s, represents timestamps as the number of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC This method simplifies parsing and utilizing time across various systems by representing it as an integer.
mx7nY TIL that in the past few years, at the same time that the NFL's "Super Bowl" is being played, the Aquarium of the Pacific (in the Californian city of Long Beach) holds the "Otter Bowl", with the otters playing with footballs made from frozen clams