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TIL The Dracula parrot is only found in New Guinea

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N7DJe TIL a human skull recovered in the back garden of broadcaster Sir David Attenborough belonged to a woman murdered in 1879
JYjl4 TIL The amusement park 6 flags is named so because it originated in Texas, which has had 6 flags fly over it (Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, Confederate States of America, and the United States)
E1oj7 TIL Good Judgement Project (GJP) that demonstrated certain "superforecasters" were better at predicting geopolitical and economic events than even experts in that field (even if they had classified info) based on HOW they thought about problems & ability to reduce basic biases experts tend to have.
nwP7 TIL Nobel Prize-winning Yale University professor Robert Shiller wrote two books: one predicted the dot-com bubble and the other, the housing bubble.
X0g5R TIL Tom Dwan won the largest poker pot ($3.1 million) in broadcast history by calling down an ace-high bluff by Wesley Fei with a pair of queens. Later in the same cash game, Fei won the 2nd largest poker pot ($2.25 million) in US broadcast history against a different player.