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TIL there’s a massive Burmese Python invasion underway in the Everglades and they’ve been steadily heading north for years

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Emno TIL a woman had a sudden heart attack on a plane, when the stewardess asked if there was a doctor on board, 15 stood up, they were on their way to a cardiology conference.
Ypogv TIL that the verb 'to duck' came before the name for the animal 'duck', and that the animal 'duck' comes from them ducking underwater
oB188 TIL the birds in Alfred Hitchcock’s movie ‘The Birds’ were fed a mixture of wheat and whiskey. It was the only way to get them to stand around so much instead of flying away
0ddvj TIL Billie Holiday was arrested on drug charges in 1947 and tried in utterly bizarre circumstances. The prosecutor asked for leniency, while her defense attorney convinced her to plead guilty, assuring her she'd be sent to a hospital. Instead, the judge sentenced her to a year in federal prison.
vPMg4 Today I learned the shortest war in history lasted just 38 to 45 minutes.