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TIL that the Galapagos penguin, a penguin endemic to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, is the only penguin found north of the equator

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4lZ5 TIL - A Man Died After His Parasitic Worm Got Cancer
4Wlo TIL of Nancy Wake, a secret agent who served Britain during WW2 and who became the Gestapo’s most wanted person. Her exploits included judo-chopping a man to death, and cycling 310 miles undetected through German territory and checkpoints to replace codes which had been destroyed in a raid.
XEXKj TIL many puzzle manufacturers reuse the dies which cut their puzzles into pieces, so pieces from one can fit into another. And one man has turned this into an art.
OoDER TIL If your partner committed adultery in Ancient Rome, you could legally sodomise the adulterer with radishes - with an audience if desired
5YKMn TIL that the biblical story of Susanna and the Elders also appears in the One Thousand and One Nights