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

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grxN7 TIL that in 2021, an organization called The Tip Project attempted to introduce American practices of gratuity into Japanese culture. The plan was met with severe backlash from locals who deemed the practice "un-Japanese", and the project was abandoned in early 2023.
rRBre TIL of Zippy Chippy, a racehorse that, despite having many famous racehorses in his pedigree, failed to win all of the 100 races he competed in and ended up banned from all tracks except Northampton Fair.
9wLXm TIL West Caribbean Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 crashed in Machiques, Venezuela after entering a Deep stall, a occurrence in some aircraft that causes them to enter a near-unrecoverable stall, killing all 160 on board.
wL4Zo TIL John C. Calhoun cast the most tie-breaking votes of any American Vice President
PYM7E TIL that since Dunkaroos were discontinued in the US in 2012, they are being smuggled into the country by Canadians called ‘Smugglaroos’