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TIL that European Starlings can mimic human speech

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BrZDW TIL donations made by Jewish people often contain the number 18 (like $20.18), or are multiples of 18 (like $108.00). It's called “giving Chai”.
vP4vR TIL that Po was the only bilingual Teletubbie. She was voiced by Pui Fan Lee and occasionally spoke Cantonese on the show.
N7Z7N TIL one of the last grizzly bears in CA was captured in 1889, brought to San Francisco as a publicity stunt, then spent 22 years on display in a concrete cell in Golden Gate Park. After he died, 1200-lb ‘Monarch’ was stuffed, again put on display, and became the bear depicted on CA’s state flag.
e0nQ6 TIL that an attempted solution which makes a problem worse is called the Cobra effect. When the British put a bounty on cobras in India to curb the population, it led to people breeding more cobras for the bounty.
oRvLR TIL that the Allstate "Mayhem" actor Dean Winters, died for about 3 minutes, and was then revived. The infection that caused this also led to two toes and a thumb needing to be amputated.