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TIL in 2011, a man found a penguin covered with oil and nearly dead. He was able to save its life. Every year since, the penguin swims 5,000 miles to meet and live with him in Brazil.

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4kE86 TIL The Ventures, a bunch of young kids in Tacoma, recorded Walk, Don't Run as an instrumental in 1960. A friend covered drums for them. He was offered $25 or 25% of the royalties. It sold millions of copies, helping create other guitar groups, and is in the Grammy Hall of Fame. He took the $25.
aLeM TIL in 1999, New Mexico state Sen. Duncan Scott successfully got a bill passed in the NM senate requiring all psychiatrists testifying in court to wear a wizard’s hat.
OoMx6 TIL when ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ was released, its box office experienced an unexpected success from the younger counterculture demographic who particularly enjoyed experiencing the Stargate sequence while under the influence of psychedelic drugs.
J1PnV TIL about Basil Zaharoff a 19th and early 20th century arms dealer, who is believed to have inspired the James Bond villain, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
W7ymY TIL the tiny French archipelago of Saint Pierre et Miquelon became a massive bootlegging centre for whiskey and wine during the U.S Prohibition, after Canada moved to curtail illegal exports to America.