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TIL that they were giant mega-penguins. They were the size and the weight of a full-grown man.

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DQMPP TIL that according to the UN, Finland is the most literate country in the world. The absence of Amazon in Finland means that e-books have yet to make a dent on bookstores as vital places for literary exploration.
WkdaL TIL Qatar has the highest human sex ratio between 25-54 years old, with 4.91 males per female
w5DY TIL that a historian in the Warsaw Ghetto organized a massive effort to record everything that was happening there, including everything from diaries to photographs and letters. The collection, called Oyneg Shabbos, was buried in three places in 1943, and the largest part hasn’t yet been found.
kJv85 TIL that two days before singer Nina Simone died, she learned that she would be awarded an honorary degree by the Curtis Institute of Music, the music school that had refused to admit her as a student at the beginning of her career.
KOGEQ TIL that the sculptor of Mount Rushmore intended to include, near the presidents, a written history of the United States. Called "The Entablature", it was to have shown contributions by Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln to the first 150 years of American History.