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TIL Puffins Spend Almost All Their Time at Sea in the Winter

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JYY1v TIL that in 2013 four female prison guards were all found to have been impregnated by the same inmate.
0w89R TIL of Tim Johnson, a Congressman who called at least 100 of his constituents per day, every day throughout his 12 years in office.
Z8lja TIL Tens of thousands of Romani were killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp, along with Serbs, Jews, and Anti-fascist Muslims and Croats. Yad Vashem estimates that the Porajmos was most intense in Yugoslavia, where around 90,000 Romani were killed.
womK7 TIL the movie musical “Oklahoma!” (1955) was shot in Arizona because Oklahoma had so many Oil Well Derricks that they were distracting onscreen.
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