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TIL there’s a kind of hummingbird called a shining sunbeam

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Bx5K TIL pregnant Muslim women who fast during Ramadan are likely to have smaller babies who will be more prone to learning disabilities in adulthood.
OkoL TIL that in a US military exercise from 1978 in which jet fighters were pitted against helicopters, helicopters won 5 to 1.
1PlX TIL Dogs Have 13 Different Blood Types and Can Contain Different Combinations Of Each. Transfusion is Considered a “Freebie” and Doesn’t Have To Match Their Specific Blood Type.
XEk68 TIL That every year, more wealth leaves Africa than enters it. World is plundering Africa's wealth of 'billions of dollars a year'
e0Vdg TIL that Schlitz was the number one beer in America in the early 1950s and then they started changing ingredients to cut costs. By 1975, consumers complained that the beer was forming "snot" in the can, and by 1981 the company folded.