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TIL: In 2008 a man beheaded and ate a man’s eyes on a greyhound bus in Canada and was found not guilty of murder and is now roaming free

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oBVa8 TIL of Claudette Colvin, a black teenager who refused to move for a white woman on a Montgomery bus nine months before Rosa Parks did. Her action was not widely publicized due to her being pregnant at the time.
6ElNl TIL 99% of consumer grade fireworks are made in China
GmV4 TIL There was a Parrot named Alex that had a vocabulary of over 100 words. He was said to have the intelligence of a 5 year old. The last words he said to his trainer before passing away were “See you tomorrow, be good. I love you!”
jNbON TIL that a “Kermit” is a unit of time equal to 1/100th of a day (approximately 14.4 minutes)
JYma8 TIL Several mosquito species have a proboscis that’s strong enough to make it through the tight weave of denim. There’s also lots of space between the threads that make up socks, and mosquitoes can easily suck blood through those spaces