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TIL The History of the African Grey Parrot...and there's surprising stuff!

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7r0lP Til MJ wanted to do a HP musical
7rjY7 TIL about Francesco Corbetta. He brought the guitar to the rest of the world and was one of the first people to write complex plucked music for the instrument. If it wasn’t for him, the guitar would be a folk instrument restricted to Spain and Italy.
b96rp TIL Lance Henriksen - "Bishop" in the movie Aliens - was illiterate until he was 30 years old.
OBVL TIL that orange juice tastes bad after brushing because toothpaste blocks your sweet taste receptors due to a foaming agent that changes the permeability of your tongue cells.
N7Alb TIL that some historians claim, but haven't proven conclusively, that the name “sundae” was created in response to the “Blue Laws” which said that ice cream sodas could not be sold on Sundays because they were to “frilly.”