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TIL that a person would have to eat 300 hamburgers or a refrigerator full of food just to match the equivalent of what hummingbirds consume to survive every day. Hummingbirds are the world’s hungriest birds.

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e0LP5 TIL in 1963 the US Atomic Energy Commission considered the possibility of excavating an alternate rout to the Suez Canal by blasting a path across Israel using 520 two-megaton nuclear bombs. Intended to be sea level with no locks, the greatest depth of excavation required would 1500 feet.
6EODJ TIL that happy-go-lucky parody musician Weird Al Yankovic once recorded a diss track after his ex-girlfriend broke up with him. The song One More Minute describes all the horrible things he'd rather do than stay with her, and in the song's music video he tears up a picture of her on camera.
Ypx57 TIL Before a gig in Minneapolis, the Rolling Stones manager ran into their dressing room and shouted, "the police are here!" prompting Keith Richards and Ron Wood to frantically flush all their drugs down the toilet. A moment later they were introduced to Stewart Copeland and Sting.
1a4WO TIL that an opera inspired by the Breaking Bad episode, Ozymandias was made by New York composer Sun Jin Hong, and is a combination of Percy Shelly’s sonnet and the episode itself.
e051L TIL the Archbishop of Manila from 1974-2003 was called Cardinal Sin.