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TIL Hooters in China is known as “American Owl Restaurant”

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N6nQ TIL That fulmars, a type of seabird, vomit a putrid fishy oil on their assailants in self-defense. Not only does it smell horrific, but it’s lethal to predatory birds because it permanently glues their feathers together.
R7Val TIL that there's a hero in the X-Men named ForgetMeNot who's main power is that nobody is able to remember he exists
LQkkP TIL Phil Collins has a lifelong interest in the Battle of the Alamo, and owns one of the largest private collections of Alamo artifacts.
kO1Q7 TIL of the 121 songs Billy Joel recorded, 33 (27%) of them were top 40 hits.
oRVlr TIL the US government allowed a Hungarian priest to live in the US embassy in Budapest from 1956 to 1971, where he was fully protected from the Red Army who wanted his head. He never left the building once in 15 years.