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TIL Andrew Jackson had a parrot who loved to curse

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4kRnw TIL France is the country with the most time zones
X0PPD TIL If you live to age 70, your heart will have beat around 2.5 billion times
JYy0m TIL that in 1965 South Africa gave Israel 100 tonnes of uranium in exchange for just 30 grams of tritium
16O6X TIL the US enacted permanent Daylight Savings Time in 1973. It was repealed within a year when public support for it plummeted after the following winter.
J1648 TIL tilefish were a very popular food in the US during the late 1800s. It was discovered by a sea captain and his crew who found it to be very tasty. Its popularity decreased after all tilefish were killed due to getting trapped in cold water. It took decades for tilefish to be caught again.