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TIL that pig rectum is almost indistinguishable from calamari, and is sometimes secretly used as a substitute or sold as “artificial calamari”.

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Oorne TIL: Researchers taught African grey parrots to buy food using tokens. They were then paired up, one parrot given ten tokens and the other none. Without any incentive for sharing, parrots with tokens started to give some to their broke partners so that everyone could eat.
9Yyrr TIL Neil Young wrote the song "Ohio" days after the Kent State Shootings that left 4 students dead and 9 others wounded on May 4, 1970. The song has since been described as the greatest protest record ever written.
oBWYA TIL The amount of solar energy reaching the surface of Earth is so vast that in one year it is about twice as much as will ever be obtained from all of the Earth's non-renewable resources of coal, oil, natural gas, and mined uranium combined
b9XD7 TIL President Grover Cleveland found he had a tumor in his mouth, and it needed immediate attention. To avoid the public knowing, he went on a 4-day trip on a yacht to have it removed. It was done without leaving facial scars and the tumor is in a jar on display in a Philadelphia museum.
ZpaWa TIL Eugénie de Montijo, Empress of the French, was a made a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire her aid to the British during the First World War. Eugénie de Montijo donated her yacht to the war effort and funded hospitals in France.