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TIL that one of the main reasons WWF founder Sir Peter Scott choose a panda as the organisations logo was to minimise printing costs (needing just black and white).

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VMeXk TIL Mandrake, a root of a plant which sometimes resembles a human. It has long been steeped in the occult and medieval lore. The root was believed to bear hallucinogenic and narcotic properties and used in the treatment of headaches, earaches, gout and insanity to name a few.
EbZX TIL: FDR changed the date of Thanksgiving to make the Christmas shopping season longer.
5Y1jB TIL about Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens. During the Nazi Occupation, the Archbishop spoke out about the deportation of the Jewish population in Greece. When threatened by the Nazis to be executed by firing squad, he sarcastically responded with a request to hung instead as it was "tradition".
awrDA TIL that if you feed a chicken a diet of spicy red peppers, its egg yolk will turn red. This is harmless for the chicken as all birds are immune to capsaicin (the substance that makes food taste spicy).
15Q8 TIL that you can tickle penguins and they laugh.