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TIL Einstein, a parrot with a vocabulary of about 200 words, gave a TED talk.

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dMG7 TIL a piece of cake is an asexual symbol, much like a rainbow and homosexuality.
LoNQ TIL Space shuttles have blunt tips creating as much drag as possible to create a blanket of pressure protecting the shuttle from fire while entering earth’s atmosphere
XExVR TIL of accidental Stereo Sound. Where by Two recorders with microphones in different positions captured both left and right audio of an artist’s recording session. Decades later these recordings were then merged together to give stereo sound, pre-dating true stereophonic sound by a good 20 years
G46J TIL When Simon Pegg was asked by a journalist whether England had not become too small for him after the worldwide success of Shaun of the Dead, he replied “It’s not like I’m going to be starring in Mission: Impossible 3.” Six months later, he was cast in Mission Impossible 3.
78DPb TIL of the Sampit Conflict (2001), in which indigenous Dayak went back to their headhunting ways and massacred/beheaded hundreds of migrant Madurese people in the city of Sampit. Around 500-1000 people were killed and 100-700 were beheaded.