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TIL A Brazilian man found a penguin covered in oil and close to death. He nursed him back to health and since then the Penguin swims 3 to 5 thousand miles every year to spend time with his human soulmate.

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EkdX TIL we are just a few years away from 3D printing human organs, which could revolutionize medicine and transplants
Owve TIL all of the actors in “Pirates of the Caribbean” learned how to work with cannons and swords in Pirates School, which included getting trained by the late famed swordsman Bob Anderson, who also was the lightsaber master who fought battles as Darth Vader in Star Wars films
vP0xB TIL about Operation X-Ray, a WW2 program to develop an incendiary bomb attached to the chests of bats. Dropped in a tube over Japanese cities, it was thought that the bats would go to roost under the eaves of the largely wooden buildings, and when the timed devices went off, the cities would burn.
b9bo7 TIL That Bill Cosby received credit for his TV work as part of his Doctorate in Education degree
vOlj TIL: Andrew Jackson’s parrot was ejected from his funeral for swearing