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TIL that birds won’t abandon their nestlings if they smell like humans

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jNBZN TIL that the wife of Japanese fighter pilot Hajime Fujii drowned herself and their two daughters in 1944. She wanted to unburden him of his fatherly duties so he could focus on his military obligations.
WKXX TIL in July 2016, Maurice Micklewhite offically changed his name to his stage name Michael Caine. An airport security guard would say, ‘Hi, Michael Caine,’ and suddenly I’d give him a passport with a different name on it. I could stand there for an hour. So I changed my name.”