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TIL that North Korea hijacked a plane in 1967 and still hasn’t returned the passengers.

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X00BD TIL Rami Malek started his career by paying $2,000 to deliver three lines in Gilmore Girls which “took him forever to pay off”.
N8Bb TIL at the Edinburgh Zoo there is a voluntary daily penguin parade, which sometimes gets cancelled if the penguins do not wish to go out that day.
8aAN8 TIL the experience of walking into a room and forgetting exactly what you came in there to do is called the Doorway Effect. Walking through an open door and entering a new room creates a "mental block" in our brains and resets the memory to make room for the creation of new memories.
wLkb6 TIL that lobsters have bladders on either side of their heads, so they communicate by urinating at each other. If they want another lobster to know that they’re happy or sad or angry or interested in a relationship, they say it with pee!
ned1r TIL About Boulders Beach, a beach in Cape Twon, South Africa with African penguins. The penguins are an endangered species, so they are protected by the Cape Nature Conservation.