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TIL there are over 1 million penguins who live in the Falkland Island minefields because they're too light to set off the mines

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NVp8 TIL there was a project that challenged people to make a “Earth Sandwich” by placing pieces of bread in antipodal fashion on the earth (completely opposite of each other on the planet) For the first one, a baguette was placed in Spain, and another in New Zealand.
L1d TIL the father of the modern Olympics won one gold medal. In literature. For writing a poem about sports.
GY8n7 TIL Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, once sent an original drawing to a little boy who had written to him. The boy loved the card so much that he ate it.
PY4bJ TIL the name Oyakodon (親子丼), a Japanese dish consists of chicken, egg, sliced scallion, is literally "parent-and-child donburi" when translated to English
w9K8 TIL that internet is really scarce in Cuba and people gather at designated public places to access it