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TIL penguins are able to “refrigerate” the food in their stomach to make it last longer for their chicks.

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8eEGX [TIL] Janet Cooke returned her Pulitzer prize after world came to know that the news article she wrote for The Washington Post was fictional.
PYrEe TIL that Queen Victoria was irritated at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her daughter Princess Victoria, who was the wife of the reigning German Emperor and hence an Empress - so the British government created for her the title of Empress of India
dMwQ TIL that Teddy Roosevelt once held the World Record for most hands shaken in one day, with 8510 at a White House Reception.
8eX5V TIL Viacom sued YouTube for abetting copyright infringement (of Viacom property) in 2011
BrDbL TIL that Oman's crowned prince, Theyazin bin Haitham, is engaged to a women who is his paternal first cousin and his maternal first cousin.