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TIL a family of 12 Jewish Dwarfs Entered and Survived Auschwitz

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wM5Y TIL The Australian Thorny Devil can drink water by standing in a puddle, directing water up along its skin to the corners of its mouth.
awdvb TIL that in 1873, the Northern Pacific Railway renamed the city to Bismarck, in honor of German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. It is the only US state capital named for a foreign statesman
N7yrJ TIL that although you can't buy alcohol in the United States until you're 21, you can legally run for governor of California, Massachusetts , Ohio, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin when you're 18.
Mp7a TIL A Michigan Police Officer bought a car seat for a man’s daughter instead of giving him a ticket.
Z8OAa TIL Sergei Rachmaninoff's greatest hit is 1975's "All By Myself," in which Eric Carmen unknowingly included copyright protected melody structure from Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto, thinking it was public domain. It wasn't, having been originally published in 1901.