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TIL Alex, a talking parrot with vocabulary of around 100 words, died at age of 31, his last words being very heartwarming (More info in article!)

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4XK8g TIL Mount Everest is only the world's tallest mountain as measured from sea level. But since the earth bulges at the equator, the mountain Chimborazo in Ecuador is the tallest mountain if you measure from the earth's core.
p8RPp TIL: Mark Hamill visited a dying fan in the hospital and answered every question as Luke Skywalker because the fan couldn't tell reality from fiction anymore.
1YM7 TIL About a man, Bradley Birkenfeld, who was jailed for 40 months then, upon release from prison, received the largest whistleblower award in History of $104,000,000 USD
W0QL TIL that if you earn more than $25,000 annually, you’re in the top 10% of the world’s income earners. If you earn more than $50,000 a year, you’re in the top 1% of the world’s income earners.
5VJNQ TIL Ada Lovelace, early pioneer of computing and talented mathematician was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron.