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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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rRaxy TIL That Stanley Kubrick made 2001: A Space Odyssey the same time the novel was being written. Both Arthur C. Clarke and Kubrick worked on the novel together, but eventually, only Clarke was listed as the author.
Yplbx Today I Learned that the Pineapple plant is a carnivorous plant
rYnW TIL that at the 1931 World Ice Hockey Championship the Canadian team was recognized as being so dominant, such that they did not participate in the play off tournament. Canada was put into the gold medal final game, and the tournament was played to determine an opponent. Canada won.
VMGMZ TIL that Ulysses S. Grant created the Department of Justice, ratified the Fifteenth Amendment and asked for Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1871, enabling him to combat and prosecute the Ku Klux Klan.
W79bo TIL that the First Image of an Medieval Chastity Belt was From a Treatise on Siege Warfare and Torture Devices - In Reality, Chastity Belts Likely Never Existed.