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TIL that penguins have an organ behind their eyes that turns sea water in to fresh water

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Zp4mp TIL the customizer who created the Jaguar Hearse in Harold & Maude didn't see the movie until 2016, 45 years after its debut.
5VgED TIL that the popular show Umbrella Academy was originally a comic book series, and it was created by the singer of My Chemical Romance, Gerard Way.
R7ZK6 TIL that This American Life recently became the first recipient of a Pulitzer Prize awarded for audio journalism. For context, the Pulitzer Prize was established in 1917 and the first radio broadcast was in 1920. 100 years and never awarded to a radio show.
PYg7Z TIL There's a zip file titled '42.zip'. It's known as a zip bomb or 'zip of death' because it's original size is only 42 kilobytes. But when it's uncompressed, it expands to 4.5 petabytes (4,500,000 gigabytes), crashing the antivirus program and then the system.
gMNnD TIL That before modern refrigerators, Russian and Finnish people would keep live brown frogs in their milk to keep it fresh. It was found that the secretions made by the frogs basically act as antibiotics, killing bacteria, and keeping the milk fresh and safe to drink.