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TIL some penguins have been recorded engaging in prostitution by trading sex with single males for nest-stones.

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ORn1 TIL that Transport for London has a history of giving babies born on a train/in underground stations free lifetime rail/train passes
d8KQZ TIL In 1969, Jimi Hendrix sent a telegram to Paul McCartney asking him to join a supergroup along with Tony Williams and Miles Davis. McCartney never received the message.
gMWW9 TIL of "Jerome of Sandy Cove" an unknown man who washed up on the shore of Nova Scotia September 8 1863. Both his legs were amputated above the knees and he couldn't (or refused to) understand French, Latin, Italian, or Spanish. He died 49 years later and no one ever figured out where he came from.
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