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TIL Hot Dogs are served in buns (vs just a sausage) because vendors in the 1800s were losing money when they used to hand out sausage holding gloves, which people wouldn't return or would keep as souvenirs...

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l76W7 TIL Lonely parrots can be taught to call their buddies.
ne4yG TIL about one of the rare cases of the Lazarus Syndrome. Walter Williams, 78, from Lexington, Mississippi, declared by a coroner at his home on 26 February 2014. Once at a funeral home, he was found to be moving. The next day he was well enough to be talking with family, but died fifteen days later.
PYWbJ TIL Handedness (directional) preferences are found in birds. When equal safety paths are presented to a bird individual birds will have a definite repeated preferences for a direction to fly.
8eyAP TIL archeologists have been using remote sensing equipment like LIDAR to find lost cities in places like Ecuador and it's revolutionizing the field with major discoveries of previously unknown ancient cities in the Americas.
eVwb TIL A grown man hunted down and attacked a child who killed him several time in Call of Duty