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TIL Puck, a male budgie, holds the world record for the largest vocabulary of any bird, at 1,728 words

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ed0n TIL that pan-African nations have come together pledging to build a 15 kilometer wide band of trees that will stretch all the way across Africa, 7500 kilometer, in order to stop the progressive advancement of the Sahara.
xLg5 TIL Between 60-70% of the French prison population is Muslim.
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