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TIL that polar bears and penguins live on opposite ends of the planet, and likely never have ever met.

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0wN61 TIL During Tool's concert at Garden Pavillion, owned by L. Ron Hubbard of the Church of Scientology, Maynard James Keenan "spent most of the show baa-ing like a sheep at the audience."
P1l8J Today I learned you can shit out your mouth 🤢💩
ANOyn TIL of August Kubizek, a friend of Hitler when they were teenagers. It was only thirty years later after Hitler abruptly cut off communication with Kubizek that Hitler rekindled his friendship with Kubizek in 1938. After the war, he wrote a book called "The Young Hitler I Knew" in 1955.
awgKJ TIL that in 1982, 10yo actress Samantha Smith wrote a letter to USSR Gen. Secretary Yuri Andropov asking if he would engage in nuclear war. Yuri invited her to Moscow. She was greeted as a celebrity. She died 3 years later in a plane crash after capturing the attention of the world for her efforts.
e0Pd6 TIL Native American actor Iron Eyes Cody fooled the world. After his death, it was revealed that he was of Sicilian parentage, and not Native American at all.