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TIL of Alex the parrot,the only non human animal to ever ask an existential question

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o50L TIL that Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon album remained on the Billboard 200 list for 15 years straight.
jd5N TIL In ancient China, during the Imperial Exams people were isolated in small rooms for 3 days with only a jug of water, a chamber pot, and writing supplies. To prevent favoritism official typists would copy all the exams so the examiners wouldn’t recognize the handwriting of the exam takers.
kvY5 TIL that in the 1805 Constitution of Haiti, only blacks could be citizens, and whites were prohibited from owning land.
7LDx TIL: In 2004, a white, African-born Omaha student was suspended for seeking his school’s “Distinguished African-American Student” award
6vPw TIL : That For each word he said in Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $21,429.