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TIL American Robins and Waxwings will display intoxicated behavior after consuming certain species of fermented plants.

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6EGyw TIL that a rattlesnakes rattler is made from skin shed during molting. They start with one “button” (which is made of the same material as our fingernails), and add each time it molts.
epBmE TIL that the California St. Francis Dam disaster of 1928, a midnight-hour 120' wave that killed 431 sleeping people and wiped out giant sections of land more than 50 miles west to Ventura, was caused by the dam having been built on a fault zone (in addition to the dam's retention of water).
l70EN TIL during WW2 the US and Canada invaded a Japanese-held Alaskan island with more than 35,000 men. After more than 300 casualties and the near sinking of the destroyer USS Abner Read from traps, mines, and friendly fire; they realised there were no Japanese on the island.
nWVvb TIL Red Dye No. 3, which is used as a food coloring, is banned as a food additive in the European Union, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and California
oR17A TIL When Prince changed his name to a symbol, Warner Bros sent out floppy disks to major news outlets containing the digital rendition