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TIL that normally life bonded birds get “divorced” sometimes...

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4Xj7b TIL of Gonzalo Guerrero, a Spanish soldier shipwrecked in Mexico and taken captive by local Maya. By the time Cortés arrived, he had become a Maya war captain, was married to his Lord's daughter, and fathered the first Mestizo children. He led local Maya resistance until his death in 1532.
Lk4v0 TIL Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire Killed 11% of the World's Population in the 13th Century
ADlya TIL Guns 'N Roses once went on tour with a car that broke down, so they hitchhiked to the gig, ate raw onions from a field along the way, made it to Seattle for the gig, and when they finished, the owner refused to pay them. They responded by trying, and failing, to burn the club down.
VBXoG TIL that the 'inner-voice' of most life-long & completely deaf people is seeing/feeling themselves acting out sign language
6ExO7 TIL in 1995, a Russian Ilyushin Il-76 was intercepted and captured by the Taliban. After negotiations for a prisoner exchange fell through, the Russian crew physically overpowered and disarmed their guards and started their plane, narrowly dodging a firetruck as they took off towards freedom.