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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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Zpv6o TIL that, during a battle in the French and Indian War, George Washington survived having had two horses shot from under him and four bullets piercing his coat.
ZD0o TIL there was a nightly firefall at Yosemite for 88 years.
0wagN TIL about the Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox, an endangered megabat species that has a wingspan of up to 1.7m (5.6 feet).
rL0w TIL after MH-17 was shot down over Ukraine, the Russian government accused a Ukrainian fighter jet. After it was exposed that this type of jet couldn’t reach the required altitude, Wikipedia said there were a flurry of attempts from Russia to edit the jet’s page to say it could fly higher.
QkPk TIL baby elephants still need to learn how to drink using their nose, that it’s not one of their instincts.