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TIL “The German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in South America in 1800 encountered a very old parrot that was the sole speaker of a dead Indian language, the original tribe having gone extinct.”

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vWBD TIL the two African-American athletes who gave the Black Power salute at the 1968 Olympics were also shoeless during the protest. This was to represent black poverty.
0d6XN TIL that in the 1920's, a man was given 1 year to live by doctors, if he moved to a warm climate. He built a house in Bartow, FL with a lot of unique features and designs, and would go on to live to the 1970's. It has become known as "The Wonderhouse" and become a local tourist attraction.
VBm18 TIL A group of well trained athletes were given placebo steroids, and they showed the same results in 8 weeks as would be expected with a low dose of real steroids
x6vP7 TIL that Each day in France, over 3 million jambon-beurre (ham and butter) sandwiches are sold, more than almost any other kind of sandwich, except for fast-food hamburgers
69Pm7 TIL of the 1862 Nueces Massacre in Texas, when 96 Confederate soldiers killed 37 German-Texan Unionists who were attempting to flee to Mexico, and slaughtering 9 Germans who were badly wounded in the fight, marking the end to overt German Unionist resistance in Texas for the remainder of the war.