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TIL At 11AM every morning, a group of five ducks (led by a Duckmaster) descend from their penthouse suite to the lobby of the Peabody hotel in Memphis. After playing in the fountain, at 5PM they leave and return to their rooms. This has been going on for over 70 years.

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xaG7 TIL that since 2009, Iceland had a financial crisis: through the power if referendum, they ousted the local gov’t, declared they were not going to repay the banker’s loans, jailed those responsible, and wrote a new constitution without an political parties. (Democracy, you’re doing it right)
4XLNg TIL that Bayer, one of the biggest pharmaceutical company, was involved in human trafficking during WWII, where they bought groups of women from Auschwitz to conduct secrets experiments on them.
6yGZ TIL that German brothers Adolph and Rudolph Dassler split up their father’s shoe company in to Puma and Adidas in 1948. This happened after Adi leaked information to Americans saying that his captured brother was a member of the SS.
N7YrP TIL The mayfly, Dolania americana, is believed to have the shortest adult lifespan of any insects. The adult insects emerge before dawn in early summer, mate, and die within the space of about 30 minutes. The female deposits her eggs in the water and dies within 5 minutes of emergence
ADAm7 TIL Greenland sharks are the longest living vertebrates on Earth with one female being carbon dated at about 400 years old. The sharks grow at just 1cm a year, and reach sexual maturity at about the age of 150.