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TIL the world’s oldest wild bird, a 74-year-old albatross, is expecting again.

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Bgbbb TIL when a cockroach is dying, its high center of gravity pulls its back towards the floor. Its rounded back and weakened muscles prevent it from righting itself, especially on smooth surfaces, which results in it flipping. This is the simple reach why cockroaches die on their backs.
8aRVV TIL The Tetris Company emerged from a Soviet agency. Today, it licences it's trademark and doesn't make the game anymore. Instead it sues people who make unlicensed clones.
0O7R TIL that after getting fired in 1996, Timothy Lloyd, an 11-year employee of OMEGA, planted a hacking “time bomb” within the firm’s computer systems that deleted the firm’s main operating software two weeks after his lay-off, making the firm lose over $10 million and fire 80 employees.
e0pDb TIL of Pete Goss, A single handed sailor who sailed two days in hurricane force winds and 30ft waves to rescue another competitor. Nursed him back to health while sailing two weeks to land, then went back to finish the Vendee Globe race.
QJj9a TIL Priyanka Chopra has a world record for most different characterss played by an actress in a single movie, with 12