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TIL Starlings are every bit as intelligent as other more common pet bird species and can learn to talk.

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774O TIL Firefighters have emergency fire shelters they can use as a last resort. They are made of aluminum foil and silica that can allow them to withstand heat up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit
jNaJE TIL that sexsomnia is a sleep disorder where people experience sleep-related sexual behavior. These behaviors range from masturbation to sexual intercourse. People with this disorder engage in sexual behaviors while asleep, often with other people.
8aBaL TIL that during the Cuban Missile Crisis a false alarm of nuclear war almost made a Soviet nuclear submarine near the U.S launch it's nukes. However the order for a launch needed 3 approvals and Arkhipov refused. So this guy is the only reason why all of us are still alive today
ANdll TIL that in 1958, a nuclear bomb was accidentally dropped on South Carolina by the US Air Force. It didn’t detonate, but the conventional explosives inside it did, creating a crater 70 feet wide and injuring six people.
rw6o TIL Amazon’s daily record for orders was more than 26.5 million items worldwide across all product categories, which is a record-breaking 306 items per second. That day Amazon sold enough copies of the “Fifty Shades” trilogy to create a stack 445 times taller than the Space Needle.