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TIL that penguins propose to their mate during the courtship stage.

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pYeMO TIL Matthew Hopkins was Witch Finder General of England who hanged more "witches" than any other witch hunter.
6kLl TIL a woman jumped from the 86th floor of the Empire State building, only to be blown back onto a ledge on the 85th floor by a gust of wind.
EgJ60 TIL that right before the legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki quit his job to pursue directing, he was creating artwork for an anime series based on “Anne of Green Gables” - a 1908 Children’s novel set in Maritime Canada.
vlrB TIL that Mattel sold a vibrating Harry Potter broomstick that teenage girls really, really liked.
wL9dM TIL In 1997, an American co., RiceTec obtained a patent for a strain of rice never historically grown in America — “Basmati”. They achieved this by crossbreeding India’s native plant with a US long rice variety & then claimed exclusive rights over any basmati hybrid grown in the western hemisphere.