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TIL that the male satin bowerbird only gets its characteristic blue colour at about eight to nine years. Satin bowerbirds live to for about eight to nine years in the wild.

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Lk15P TIL that in the late 1700s and 1800s, there was widespread panic about the evils of book-reading, which was described as “an outrage on decency and common sense”. People were concerned that avid novel-readers were ‘addicted’ and were becoming anti-social.
ROQ9 TIL: Mike Myers was horrified when clips from Wayne’s World were mixed with Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody video. “they’ve just whizzed on a Picasso.”. The band responded simply saying, “Thank you for using our song.” This shocked Myers, “Thank you for even letting me touch the hem of your garments!”
rNGLo TIL of Andras Toma, a Hungarian POW capturer near Krakow by Russians in 1945. None of the Russian doctors understood Hungarian, believing Andras to be speaking gibberish. It wasn't until 2000, when a Slovakian came around and understood he was speaking a real language. He was released after 55 years
Lk8xr TIL that the largest cruise ship today, Symphony of the Seas, is the equivalent of almost 5 Titanics in size and mass.
MeE00 TIL the cult fo the flying spaghetti monster is basically just a copy of the already existing Baháí Faith, that acknowledges all other religions and embraces human rights and science