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

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l7LGa TIL That there are many living descendants of the prophet Mohammed, including the current King of Jordan Abdullah II.
leE1 TIL Natural redheads have a higher pain tolerance than those with other hair colors. They are also harder to kill via lethal injection.
nWeYG TIL: The 1904 fire in Baltimore was way worse then it had to be due to no industry standard for firefighting equipment at the time.
9YjwX TIL that Russell Crowe cornered and assaulted a TV producer after the BBC cut out his reading of a poem during his best actor award acceptance speech at the BAFTAs.
v1yJ4 TIL that Michael Rockefeller, son of Senator Nelson Rockefeller and great-grandson of oil magnate John Rockefeller, was very likely eaten by cannibals in New Guinea, and it's speculated that Nelson's mother paid a private investigator $250,000 for recovering Michael's skull from the tribe.