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TIL that birds have their own regional accents!

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5YMlP TIL that In 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought a four-day conflict that cost thousands of lives and displaced thousands more in the aftermath of a Football game. The struggle is still remembered as the football war.
XEjWQ TIL that Allspice is not, in fact, all the spices mixed together, but rather a type of sun-dried Central American berry.
oX6o TIL that an attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the world’s most expensive cocktail was thwarted when a customer dropped and broke the bottle of Cognac that was worth $77,000
96QG TIL in Albania there are the buneshas: a whole group of women who choose to remain virgins and live their live as men.
grWAL TIL that Western countries are sending their old digital appliances to a graveyard of electronics near the Ghanaian capital Accra. After arriving at the dump the old divices are dismantled for scrap. Work at the waste site is toxic but locals often use kids to do the job.