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TIL that the male gentoo and Adelie penguins “propose” to females by giving them a pebble.

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OGE0a TIL Basketball star Jayson Tatum and hockey star Matthew Tkachuk have been close friends since high school in St. Louis. They each won championships in their respective sports within a week of each other in June 2024.
KOKdE TIL a Canadian psychologist named Elliott Jaques coined the term "midlife crisis"
rRLjw TIL-"Sell or Starve" Act of 1877. After defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Congress attached, what the Sioux call the "sell or starve" rider, to the Indian Appropriations Act of 1876 that cut off all rations for the Sioux until they terminated hostilities and ceded the Black Hills to the US
kOMd7 TIL the phrase “Bury the Hatchet” comes from a centuries-old practice seen among the Native American tribes of North America. Chiefs would meet and bury their weapons as a symbolic gesture of peace, “…buried so far into the earth so as to never be seen again.”
XoP8 TIL that the last complete radio silence in the world happened for two minutes after the death of Gugliemo Marconi on July 21, 1937. To this day, no complete radio silence has been record.