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

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QJAJ9 TIL The actor that portrayed Scruff McGruff the Crime Dog was arrested and sentenced to 16 years in prison for possesion of Marijuana and Grenade Launchers.
p8WOp TIL Ann Druyan, a member of the team that assembled the Golden Record for the Voyager, recorded her brainwaves to put on it. A few days before, she and Carl Sagan professed their love to each other. So somewhere in space is a golden disc with the recorded brainwaves of someone madly in love.
WkvpY TIL one of the chief executives of American Motors had a habit that every time he thought his salary and bonus was too high for a year, he would give the excess back to his company.
OGege TIL the only instance of shots fired in anger on Antarctica occurred in 1952 when an Argentine naval base fired machine guns over the heads of a British landing party.
brVE TIL that John Hamm (Don Draper of Mad Men) was Ellie Kemper’s (Kimmy Schmidt and Erin from The Office) High School acting teacher.