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TIL that half of all parrots are kept in captivity

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b6RWN TIL that the Eiffel Tower was originally designed for Barcelona, but it was rejected for aesthetic reasons. The design was not popular in Paris at the time; some 300 intellectuals and artists called it an eyesore.
VBXwG TIL That the McDonald Observatory in Texas, it's primary mirror has 7 bullet holes in it. This has caused it to only reduce in effectiveness by approximately 1%.
XEapX TIL some women have superhuman vision, seeing 100 million colors due to the genetic mutation: tetrachromacy. The rest of us see 1% or less of that. They see 100x variations in color that appear the same to everyone else. A path of dull grey stones may look like a glittering jewellery box to them
d8GlK TIL that the largest pumpkin ever grown in the US state of Massachusetts was in 2020, by Charles M. Lieber, a Harvard chemist convicted of not disclosing ties to the Chinese government, as well as not reporting associated income from this work
xEkg TIL “In 2000, [Blockbuster Video] turned down a chance to purchase a one-year-old company called Netflix for $50 million.”