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TIL that a penguin has served in the Norwegian army and has received knighthood

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lN8V TIL that scientists created a completely enclosed, artificial environment called Biosphere 2 and made one mistake that caused all the trees to fall down before maturation: there was no wind so trees failed to develop stress wood, which is necessary for them to stand.
RwZa TIL During the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Russians got free passes on the Moscow subway system if they did 30 squats in front of a motion sensor
Y7VNd TIL one of Nazi physician Johanna Haarer's child-rearing strategies was that newborns should be placed in a separate room from their mother for the first three months of the baby's life, with only strictly regulated breastfeeding visits from her of no longer than 20 minutes during that period.
PyQV TIL a study by the London School of Economics found that the place human beings feel most miserable is work.
OGPoe TIL researchers have found that the ancient Romans manipulated chemistry to make "quicklime" that caused "self healing" concrete, thereby preserving ancient Roman architecture, and answering why so many of their structures remain standing when modern structures fail.