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TIL blue jays aren’t actually blue

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69e7 TIL that a rooster in Basel, Switzerland was sentenced to burn at the stake for committing the “heinous and unnatural crime of laying an egg”.
4WEo TIL When Julius Caesar died, he left today’s equivalent of about $270 to each and every Roman citizen.
aX1M TIL that Mavis Beacon, from Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, is not a real person and is a stock photo
vlEB TIL in a private cemetery in Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them.
ZEp4 TIL that Portobello, Cremini, and Button (White) mushrooms are all different stages of maturity for the same mushroom.