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TIL a crow succeeded in a cognitive test that stumped most 4-5 year old children, indicating their intelligence may even outshine that of apes

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dDVvr TIL Former US President Andrew Jackson's parrot was kicked out of his funeral for swearing.
4XeZa TIL that astronomer Tycho Brahe got into a drunken duel with his cousin over who was the better mathematician, and as a result of the duel had to wear a prosthetic nose.
wQA1 TIL for each new film, a movie is set up as its own corporation, the entire point of which is to lose money. This is so actors, writers, and other individuals who are promised a share of the profits actually earn nothing since the movie, as a corporation, technically lost money.
kOmb1 TIL the name “Africa” does not come from any African language. It is Latin and derives from “Afri”, a Roman term for the inhabitants of North Africa.
XEga6 TIL of Muhammad Ali Pasha, an Albanian who rose through the ranks of the Ottoman army to become viceroy of Egypt. While viceroy, he destroyed the first Saudi state, conquered Sudan, and launched a rebellion which almost overthrew the Sultan, before being halted by European intervention.