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TIL an endangered parrot in New Zealand was only mating with people's heads, so they made an "ejaculation helmet" for people to wear which would collect the bird's rare semen

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eJan TIL Workers who cut up pineapples eventually lose their fingerprints due to the action of the proteolytic enzyme, bromelain, that dissolves them.
QNGE9 TIL of Propaganda Due, an Italian masonic lodge founded in 1877 that by 1980s became known as the “a state within a state” responsible for high-level corruption and political manipulation.
xVOab TIL that in 1971 an unidentified man hijacked a plane in the northwest United States, obtained $200,000 in ransom money (equivalent to $1,260,000 today) and parachuted into the night, never to be heard from again. Fifteen copycat hijackings were attempted in 1972, all of which were unsuccessful.
WD74 TIL that in the tv show Deadwood, The word “fuck” is said 43 times in the first hour of the show. It has been reported that the series had a total count of 2,980 “fucks” and an average of 1.56 utterances of “fuck” per minute of footage.
wL0RW TIL about the French phrase “tirer les vers du nez” which literally translates as “to pull the worms from somebody’s nose” but means to make someone tell a secret/the truth. It became a popular phrase after the rise of nasal parasites in the 15th century.