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TIL a species of Indonesian parrot called Goffin’s cockatoo can solve complex mechanical puzzles

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9YxlB TIL in 1615, Icelanders killed dozens of Spanish whalers after one of the whalers stole a fish from a native. Until 2015, it was legal for Icelanders to kill any Basque on sight.

XE94X TIL When Chinua Achebe became the editor of the Heinemann African Writers Series, one of the first books he chose was a collection of stories by Cyprian Ekwensi. Ekwensi became one of the most prolific African writers of the twentieth century

MPOA TIL US Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) believed that the island of Guam would tip over by placing a military base there.

n8Od TIL of Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier in the entire Second World War. In 1942 he falsified his age to 18 to join the Army and until 1945 he participated in battles on Sicily, at Salerno, Anzio and Rome, and also in southern France and the Alsace region.

LyXZ TIL Cancers are primarily an environmental disease with 90–95% of cases attributed to environmental factors and 5–10% due to genetics.