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TIL that 25% of all male black swans are homosexual. Gay black swan couples will only mate with females to reproduce, chasing away the female once her eggs have been laid.

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R7gQQ TIL that the International Space Station ran on a 20MHz Intel 80386SX CPU from 1988 & was upgraded in August with a commercial off-the-shelf computer. The station orbits Earth & sees a sunrise once every 92 minutes. Soon after the upgrade, it will have a computer that can keep up.
QJbmd TIL that Hitler was mostly inspired by Ataturk. This is told by a book written by Stefan Ihrig. The details of this and the link of the book is provided.
9dk7 TIL That actor Ashton Kutcher studied Biomedical Engineering at University of Iowa in an attempt to cure his twin brothers heart condition.
9j67 TIL that in the U.S., there were animal abuse laws before child abuse laws.
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