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TIL Lenin's body was embalmed and put on display in his Mausoleum on the Red Square, next to the walls of the Kremlin

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ypmX TIL Antarctica has a emergency phone number: 911. It Calls the nearest island/country that has a Police / Emergency system.
XmW8 TIL Adélie Penguins were observed to participate in rape, pedophilia, and necrophilia. The displays were so graphic, the scientist who originally saw them hid away the records of it for over 100 years.
jNVX TIL that in 1991 the #55 Mazda 787B is the only car with a non-reciprocating engine to win the 24 hours of Le Mans. Its wankel engine was so good (930 bhp from a 2.6l engine) that after winning the race it was banned.
9WeD TIL that the FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to numerous reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the Midwest in an ice cream truck.”
wNZo TIL that the first aerial refueling occurred when Wesley May climbed from a Lincoln Standard to a Curtiss Jenny with a 5 gallon can strapped to his back in 1921.