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TIL of Moctezuma's headdress, a featherwork crown which tradition holds belonged to Moctezuma II, the Aztec emperor at the time of the Spanish Conquest. It is now in the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, and is a source of dispute between Austria and Mexico, as no similar pieces remain in Mexico.

lJ9B TIL that the Blue Whale is the heaviest animal to have EVER lived.
1aBr8 TIL there is a death metal band named Hatebeak whose vocalist is a parrot.
0KbN TIL, due to homosexuality being depicted in American Me, the Mexican Mafia retaliated by murdering three of the movie’s consultants
A9YB TIL that 90% of the earth population has brown eye color
v1vaL TIL new knitting patterns were banned in both world wars as a counter-measure to knitted coded messages