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

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5YgKr TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd was named after Leonard Skinner, a gym teacher who used to send the band's members to the principal for their long hair. Later, the band used his real estate company's sign and phone number in album artwork, swamping Leonard Skinner Realty in prank calls.
l7ElV TIL that farm raised salmon are not naturally“salmon” colored. They are grey and are given astaxanthin to make their flesh closer to the color of wild salmon and appetizing to the consumer
lo8pN TIL the Australian Dingo is able to absorb the majority of it's necessary water intake from the consumption of prey alone. A pair of Dingos was once recorded going 22 days without water.
Gy8J TIL In 2012, a cat saved its owner’s life the night he was adopted. The owner got a diabetic seizure, the cat brought her back to consciousness, and then ran to her son’s room pounced on him until he woke up and called for medical assistance.
rN7EW TIL: The widely-reported study that men leave their wives due to illness more often than women leave husbands was retracted in 2015 because an error in the data analysis code classified "no response" from men as "choosing divorce" which rendered the original results invalid and skewed.