Things I learned lately 12 February

• Birds Aren't Real is a satirical conspiracy theory which posits that birds are actually drones operated by the government to spy on citizens. In 2018, journalist Rachel Roberts described Birds Aren't Real as "a joke that thousands of people are in on".
  
  
  
• Einstein's support for pacifist, civil rights and left-wing causes in Europe had drawn suspicion from J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, and after his arrival to America, the Bureau launched what would eventually become a 22-year surveillance campaign since the FBI believed Einstein was a Soviet spy.
• In 1994, Dave Grohl wrote and recorded an entire album on his own. Singing and playing almost every instrument and using the name Foo Fighters to hide his identity. After getting a record deal, Grohl needed members to play the songs live and so the Foo Fighters were formed. Grohl said the name he came up with was more of a joke and is the stupidest band name he ever heard.
• Alice Blaise saved a 4 year old boy from drowning at the beach in 1965. 9 years later the same boy saved a man from drowning at the same beach. The man was Alice's husband.
• In 1977, Ben Cohen was a struggling potter & Jerry Greenfield was getting rejected by medical schools. The pair decided to open a bagel shop, but the cost of bagel machines was too high. As a result, they enrolled in a $5 ice cream making course instead. A year later, they created Ben & Jerry's.
• Mice don't really like cheese. They'll eat it if that's all they can find, but they don't go for it like we've been led to believe.
• Velociraptors were the size of a turkey in real life.
• In 1978 Emilio Palma was the first person born on Antarctica, making them the only currently living person that was the first person born on a continent