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TIL there are Penguins that live in rainforests

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GVwE TIL there’s a word for the smell of earth after rain… ‘Petrichor’
8ekW4 TIL a robot named HitchBot successfully hitchhiked across Canada, Germany and the Netherlands, but got decapitated while hitchhiking across the US
4XJwX TIL that the Sperm Whale is the loudest animal in the world. They are capable of producing sounds 230 decibels in volume, and can be heard by other Sperm Whales from 60 kilometers away.
R5bE7 TIL when the directors of Harold and Kumar (2004) took their movie to film producers, the producers said "we really love this movie", but wanted to change the main characters from Korean and Indian to "a White guy and a Black dude"
oR5wR TIL In 1983 journalist and weekend NBC national news anchor Jessica Savage and her boyfriend Martin Fishbein drowned in the Delaware River. They left a restaurant in a torrential rain storm and took a wrong exit, ending up on a tow path to the river, the car plunged in and landed upside down.