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TIL that President Andrew Jackson’s pet parrot started yelling obscenities during the former president’s own funeral and had to be removed.

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awBdJ TIL that Cambridge University was founded in 1221 by professors from Oxford who had been run out of town by hostile townspeople
9w7R7 TIL art was part of the Olympics between 1912 and 1948 with Germany being the overall winner in terms of gold medals with seven. Categories included architecture, sculpture, music and painting.
WKno TIL of David Hahn, who at 17 years old attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard, which at one point was emitting over 1000 times normal background radiation.
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