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TIL Craig Ferguson won a Peabody Award in 2009 for his interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu

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LZn0 TIL the country with highest number of camels is Australia
D1OJe TIL that agressive marching step is called Goose Step
0x9v TIL in 1940, 11-year-old Audrey Hepburn studied ballet in occupied Holland. To aid the resistance, the students performed in secret while Nazi patrols roamed nearby. Applause was forbidden, and later Hepburn said, “The best audience I ever had made not a single sound at the end of my performance.”
KODwJ TIL that the saggy lower belly that some cats develop isn't because they are fat -- that extra flap of loose skin is called the primordial pouch, and provides extra protection if they get into a fight
VMQ1G Today I learned that Bolivia has one of the world's largest deposits of lithium, critical for production of lithium ion batteries.