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TIL the Adélie Penguin engages in prostitution. Some female penguins, whether they are single or attached, will provide sex for stones.

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Z881R Alan Shepard became the first American (suborbital) space traveller on May 5, 1961.
ermg TIL David Tran, creator of Sriracha hot sauce, refuses to copyright the name of his product, and loves the popularity of his creation so much, he maintains a daily ritual of searching the Internet for the latest Sriracha spinoff.
0ded1 TIL the original Pennsylvania Station (1910–1963) in New York enabled direct rail access to New York City from the south for the first time. It was considered a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and one of the great architectural works of NYC. Its loss galvanized the historic preservation movement
Bx8r TIL that, until the 1980s, physicians routinely operated on infants without anesthetic - administering only muscle relaxants to prevent motion - under the belief that infants could not feel pain
X0pPE TIL there’s a mountain in Wales called Cnicht—a Welsh transliteration of the English word “knight”—which has retained the original pronunciation of the English word, featuring no silent letters.