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TIL penguins oil was an alternative oil product when seal oil resources were depleted on Antarctic islands

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Z8EGv TIL that 98% of adoptions in Japan are of 25-30 year old men
PY5JJ TIL that Major League Baseball is the second-highest-grossing sports league in the world, only slightly behind the NFL
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