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Today I learned birds do not sleep in their nests.

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M7mNW TIL Rickrolling came from the practice of Duckrolling, which was a bate-and-switch prank that led people to a picture of a wheeled duck. The prank came after another prank that changed the word "eggroll" to duckroll".
oRPgL TIL Sperm whales use babysitters. Sperm whale youths cannot dive as deep as their mothers so when the mother needs to forage in the deep the youth is kept safe by swimming with other adult whales.
rDZ0 TIL that a research has shown that chickens prefer beautiful humans
ne4Ro TIL the inventor of the commercial airliner also started a cult, based in part around the doctrine that the Earth sucks nutrients from outer space into itself via a hole at the North Pole and subsequently expels them from a huge anus at the South Pole.
6407 TIL the reason the Toronto Maple Leafs are not called the Maple “Leaves” is because the name was chosen in honor of the Maple Leaf Regiment from WWI. Since the regiment is a proper noun, its plural is Maple Leafs and not Leaves.