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TIL Alex the Parrot is the only animal ever documented asking a question, and it was an existential one

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gr574 TIL of Ida Dalser and Benito Albino Mussolini, Benito Mussolini's first wife and son. Fascist agents sought to destroy all traces of their relationship with the future dictator and they both died in asylums where they had been forcibly interned.
gWQ7 TIL that John C. Mcginley (the actor who played Dr. Cox in Scrubs) uses girl names to refer to all his real friends. He also uses Cox’ signature whistles in regular conversation, calling it “a bad habit”.
rRAOd TIL that the droopy lip and lazy eye of Pennywise, the clown in It, isn’t CGI; Skarsgard does it on command
J9L8 TIL when the creators of the TV show Sledge Hammer! learned it would be cancelled, they had the main character fail to disarm a nuclear warhead, destroying San Francisco. The episode got such good ratings that ABC renewed it, so the second season had to be a prequel since the entire cast was dead.
xb9g TIL that the missing airplane is the 404th boeing 777 2H6ER to be made therefore it is the “404 not found”