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TIL the male Canadian goose has a corkscrew shaped penis

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QJyQa TIL the first tree at Rockefeller Center was erected by construction workers in 1931 during the Depression-era. Workers pooled their money to buy the tree and decorated it with tin cans and garland made by their families.
4XG8X TIL of Ralph Bunche, a Black American diplomat who: was the first Afr. American in the US to earn a PhD in PoliSci; worked for the OSS in WWII; helped design and create the UN; won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the first Arab-Israeli war; 'invented' peacekeeping; and marched with Dr. King
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