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TIL that "re-elected" Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro worked as a bus driver before joining politics

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D6pg TIL penguins have been known to push a fellow penguin into the water to check if the area is safe and free of predators
b9Gy4 TIL "Trepanning" surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled into the human skull
6E1Jl TIL Salvador Dali was attracted to Hitler "“I often dreamed of Hitler as a woman. His flesh, which I had imagined whiter than white, ravished me…”
b0O0 TIL: There was an African grey parrot that learned over 100 English words, which he could use and combine approprately. His last words to his handler were “You be good. I love you. See you tomorrow”.
mR6E TIL in 2010, a 3-year old boy playing with his father’s metal detector for the first time discovered a 16th century golden pendant estimated to be worth $4 million.