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TIL Bill Nye had worked alongside Christopher Lloyd in Back to the Future: The Animated Series, where he played Doc Brown's assistant and demonstrated several experiments. These segments later led to Nye getting his own show.

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KOVoR TIL of the Dracula parrot found only in New Guinea. Despite its name, the parrot eats no meat but rather feeds almost exclusively on figs. Just as vultures adapted a featherless head to feed cleanly on bloody carcasses, a Dracula parrot's lack of face feathers keeps its face clean of sticky figs.
LQkbv TIL a 2010 survey showed that there were no Italian-born people living in Manhattan's Little Italy, and only 5% of the neighborhood's residents identified as Italian-American.
K45Q TIL the first taxidermy walrus was much larger and smoother than a live walrus, as the taxidermist had never seen one before and overstuffed it to get rid of the wrinkles.
Br7BL TIL the term Gerrymandering was coined when, in 1812, Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry created a partisan district that looked like a salamander
pYNb8 TIL there is a two foot tall, 3000 year old gold hat which was found in Germany an unknown amount of time ago