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TIL that people who work with birds or own many birds can get a disease called “Bird Fancier's Lung”. It is triggered by exposure to avian proteins present in the dry dust of droppings or feathers of a variety of birds.

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kKvE TIL that solstices, the days with either the most or least sunlight, don’t have either the earliest or latest sunrises or sunsets of the year.
90Vr TIL Russell Brand was eligible to claim $22 million after divorcing Katy Perry, but declined.
Kxj9 TIL the 1977 New York City blackout resulted in numerous looters stealing DJ equipment from electronics stores, resulting in the hip hop genre, barely known outside the Bronx at the time, which grew at an astounding rate from 1977 onward.
jBjv TIL Han Solo was an Imperial Lieutenant before his companionship with Chewbacca.
gZQy TIL that Martin Sheen has never officially changed his name and is legally Ramón Estévez. “It’s still Estevez officially. I never changed it officially. I never will. It’s on my driver’s license and passport and everything.”