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Today I learned that the male penguin collects small stones to offer to the female as part of courtship

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R59g9 TIL that the earliest credible evidence of coffee drinking appears in modern-day Yemen in southern Arabia in the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines.
P196O TIL there are people in France who have actually done time in jail for stealing garden gnomes in the name of The Garden Gnome Liberation Front
vPyjx TIL of Inalchuq, a governor of the Khwarezmian Empire who appropriated and slaughtered a Mongolian Caravan in 1218, and sold its goods. Protected and supported by his Sultan, his actions would lead to the subjugation and near-genocide of his entire empire and people.
pGEA TIL One of most powerful releases of oxytocin is stimulation of the nipples, also kissing!
QNBPM TIL that Kobe Bryant is the first person to have earned Olympic medals and an Academy Award. Two golds for 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics Basketball. The Oscar for 2018 Best Animated Short Film "Dear Basketball".