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TIL A budgie named Puck is listed in the Guinness World Book of Records as “The bird with the largest vocabulary in the world ” with a vocabulary of 1728 words. Also he wouldn’t just mimic, he would often create his own phrases and sentences.

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ANWVl TIL in 1965, a young Kris Kristofferson swept floors at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville. There, he met June Carter and asked her to give Johnny Cash a tape of his. She complied. After weeks of no reply, Kris landed a helicopter in Johnny’s front yard, gaining his full attention.
R7xlw TIL in spite of it’s famous meltdown of reactor #4 in 1986, and a fire in 1991, Chernobyl continued to operate until 2000
VB1aB TIL an 1861 Japanese book about the "history" of the United States included such colorful scenes as George Washington punching a tiger and John Adams killing a giant snake
P1QpJ TIL in 2018, a UK school began enforcing a policy that banned all students from carrying backpacks after two students and a staff member were injured by students carrying book bags that were slung over their shoulders. As a protest, a student carried his books to school using a microwave.
a8gN9 TIL Novelist Michael Crichton was a hobbyist computer programmer in the 1980s, and helped program his own adaptation of Congo for the Commodore 64 ... which then had to be rebranded after realizing he had already sold the adaptation rights to the book.