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Cumming on birds

by CopyPastaArchive January 24, 2022, 5:55 am

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I used to masturbate onto birds at a local park.

by CopyPastaArchive January 22, 2022, 5:40 pm

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TIL Brendon Grimshaw purchased Moyenne Island off Seychelles for £8,000 and was its sole inhabitant from 1973 until his death in 2012. He transformed it, planting 16,000 trees and introducing 2,000 birds and 120 giant tortoises. He was offered $50m for it, but had it declared a national park instead

by whatilearned January 22, 2022, 4:41 pm

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TIL That the White Tailed Deer, generally considered to be herbivorous, have been caught on camera slurping baby birds out of their nests like candy and munching on human bones.

by whatilearned January 21, 2022, 9:36 pm

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TIL New Zealand was home to some of the largest birds on Earth around 600 years ago, the Moas. These ostrich-like birds were as tall as 3m but went extinct due to overhunting by the first Polynesian settlers.

by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 10:04 am

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TIL of a Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a WW1 British soldier, spy, intelligence officer, explorer, and naturalist who was a fraud as well as a psychopath and murderer—even killing his own wife when she nearly exposed him for submitting stolen museum birds as his own discoveries.

by whatilearned January 18, 2022, 8:16 pm

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Til of Rôti Sans Pareil or “Roast without equal” a 19th century recipe by Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimond de la Reyniere, which involved roasting a large bird known as a Bustard which is stuffed with 17 other birds like Russian nesting dolls.

by whatilearned January 18, 2022, 2:38 pm

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TIL William Huntington Russell co-founder of the secretive Skull and Bones fatally ruptured a blood vessel protecting some birds from rocks thrown by some boys.

by whatilearned January 16, 2022, 12:43 pm

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TIL that vultures are the most threatened birds in the world (and are ecologically vital). By feasting on poisoned carrion, they end up poisoned themselves.

by whatilearned January 13, 2022, 6:42 am

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TIL that putting live birds in a pie was a form of entertainment in the 16th century. An Italian recipe book of 1549 described how to make a pie so that the birds survived and ‘flew out’ when it was cut open. This practice was also found in 1725 in a cookery book by John Nott.

by whatilearned December 13, 2021, 4:03 pm

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TIL there’s a species of parasitic nematode that induces “fruit-mimicry” in tropical ants. Infected ants develop bright red abdomens, tend to be more sluggish, and walk with their abdomens in a conspicuous elevated position. This causes frugivorous birds to confuse them for berries.

by whatilearned December 11, 2021, 9:16 am

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TIL the 435 illustrations in John Audubon’s book “The Birds of America”, which feature 1,037 species of birds, were life-sized. The pages were 39×26 in. (about 100×66 cm).

by whatilearned December 10, 2021, 1:20 am

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