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TIL male penguins have been observed having sex with other male penguins, having sex with dead penguins and having sex with unwilling female penguins. When this was discovered in 1912, it was considered too lewd to publish.

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OoL4L TIL that recently declassified military documents revealed that a solar storm detonated U.S. navy mines during the Vietnam War. Scientists are urging governments to take space weather more seriously as it could have severe consequences on our Earth.
OGVPR TIL Until the year 2000, the State of Virginia celebrated Lee-Jackson-King day, lumping two Confederate leaders in with Dr. Martin Luther King.
Z8Zvo [TIL] A group of psychiatrists watched/ studied 400 films trying to determine the most realistic psychopath; Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men] took number one. Hannibal Lector, Patrick Bateman (although entertaining), the most unrealistic.
nPQ7 TIL The son of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who was once the brand ambassador, was dismissed from company board meetings after he spoke out against Playboy’s current leadership and its non-nude magazine restructuring
nR6b TIL that West Germany fully decriminalised homosexual acts between males only in 1994 after criminal law needed reconciliation with law in East Germany, where it had been decriminalised since 1968