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TIL paleontologists have found 55-million-year old fossil remains of parrots in Scandinavia

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N7gEQ TIL that penguin prostitutes have sex with unattached males and take a pebble from the male's nest after having sex
E1jXx TIL there is a constant, and wildly chaotic, vortex at the south pole of Venus. At the cloud tops, the wind speed can reach 400km/hour.
Y7mkr TIL Coco Chanel tried to screw over her Jewish cofounders, brothers Pierre & Paul during Nazi Occupation of France and tried to seize their stake. The brothers anticipated this & transferred their shares beforehand to a Christian friend, who later gave it back to them after the war.
NMoE TIL It is considered a sin for one to try to convert another to Judaism. One must desire conversion to Judaism for its own sake, and for no other motives.
QNQDM TIL Ususama-myoo is a Japanese toilet god with eight arms that hold various pointy weaponry. Toilet users falling in to areas where agricultural fertilizer from the outhouses were stored was a commonly unfortunate cause of death. Solution: pray to the well-armed toilet god for protection