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TIL: All birds have extra eyelids

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ep6rg TIL that Jack Gleeson (Joffrey Baratheon, Game of Thrones) received a letter from author George R.R. Martin after the show aired, stating: "Congratulations on your marvelous performance. Everyone hates you!"
8amrb TIL a male baboon in Australia being transported from a research facility to get a vasectomy escaped with 2 female baboons when their cage broke. The trio was captured after 2 hrs of freedom & the vasectomy was postponed. The females reportedly had been brought along to reduce the male's stress.
9Y5Rp TIL In 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death
8e4bL TIL that the rotating tray commonly found in Chinese restaurants are called "Lazy Susans" and they are an American invention.
rAYM TIL that Jim Varney, of “Ernest” fame, was actually a trained Shakespearean actor, and used the Ernest movies as a way to fund that love.