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TIL The Dracula parrot is only found in New Guinea

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5pb9 TIL. Keanu Reeves turned down a $10 million offer for the main role in Speed 2, in favor of touring with his band and playing Hamlet in a theater production
9YZyr TIL Frigidaire, a well known kitchen and laundry appliance manufacturer, made M2 .50 caliber aircraft machine guns (and many other military items) for the Allied war effort.
epwwE TIL that OMEGA, Olympic Games official timekeepers and scorers since 1932, had asked organizers before the 1976 Games whether the scoreboards needed to accommodate four digits. They were told it was not necessary. As a result, when Nadia Comaneci performed a perfect routine, the timer showed 1.00.
x5oD TIL that there are fridges full of free beer scattered throughout Europe that will only open for Canadians.
KOK8R TIL Royal Bank of Canada used machine learning to weigh the effect of a social media storm over Chipotle’s queso (cheese dip) debut. Shares of Chipotle fell by roughly 15 percent after the company released Q3/2017 earnings that missed analyst estimates