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TIL that Andrew Jackson’s parrot had to be removed from his funeral because it kept screaming profanities during the service.

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69Wrw TIL after AC/DC vocalist Bon Scott died of alcohol poisoning, the band considered disbanding. Scott's parents requested that they not disband. So they hired Brian Johnson as their new frontman and made Back in Black, which became the second best selling album of all time
OGneY TIL: Australia claims ~5.9 million square kilometres of Antarctica (about 42%)
X0608 TIL In Season 3 Episode 24 of The Office, Ryan creates a blog for Creed. Though initially it was a word document, it was later turned into a real blog. It is still available online.
QJwJe TIL that hiccups are an inheritance from our amphibians ancestors: it used to help in the respiration process, allowing water to pass through our ancestors' gills. Now they serve no purposes.
46Do TIL the walking-into-the-room-and-forgetting-why-you’re-there feeling is due to your brains way of categorizing memories.