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TIL there is a place and the only place today you can see Reindeers coexisting with Penguins is in the Kerguelen islands, an extremely distant subantarctic island located in Southern Indian Ocean.

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nKAP TIL after being told he could not drink or smoke in front of the King of Saudia Arabia for religious reasons, Winston Churchill said “my religion prescribed an absolute sacred rite smoking cigars and drinking alcohol before, after, and if need be during all meals and the intervals between them.”
0deGA TIL in October 1995, the potato became the first vegetable to be grown in space. Seed potatoes were grown in space using technology called quantum tubers developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, combining with China’s agricultural techniques.
ANOYl TIL: The descendants of Genghis Khan (1162 — 25 August 1227) continued to rule parts of Central Asia for 700 years until the 1920s, when they were conquered by the Bolsheviks and their states became part of the Soviet Union.
9Y9yQ TIL penguins can drink saltwater because of glands near their eyes that remove salt from their bloodstream and then they can sneeze out the extra salt.
oRRGR TIL that when you get a kidney transplant, they usually leave both of your original kidneys in your body, meaning you end up with 3 kidneys