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TIL that birds have their own regional accents!

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wLeM TIL Asperger’s syndrome used to be called “autistic psychopathy”
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epjQb TIL Bhutan ethnically cleansed up to 40% of its population in the 90s and are now what some people consider the happiest nation in the world
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GAYZ4 TIL the first stop motion puppet film - The beautiful Leukanida (Film) from 1912 - was created by posing dead insects instead of using hand crafted puppets.