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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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RNN9 TIL In the earliest version of Red Riding Hood she becomes a cannibal, eating her grandmother.
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Zo1G TIL When the half-millennium-old Tiananmen Gate was found to be falling down in the 1960s, it was secretly replaced, bit by bit, with an exact replica, in a successful conspiracy that involved nearly 3,000 people who managed to keep it a secret for years.
4Xxv6 TIL the idiom "All's Well That Ends Well" is the name of a play by William Shakespeare.
A9En TIL: Patty Cannon was the leader of a gang in the early 19th century that kidnapped slaves and free blacks from the Delmarva Peninsula and transported and sold them to plantation owners located further south.