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TIL that in 1800 Alexander von Humboldt found a pet parrot in Amazonia that was the last "speaker" of an extinct language. He documented what it said, and his notes are the only trace of this language(www.mentalfloss.com)

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DemSpud@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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Lmao the other two comments in this thread are hilarious next to each other

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lmao

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