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TIL your old social media posts can reveal more than you think – even if they're years old. We all have those cringe-worthy Facebook rants or questionable tweets from years ago. But did you know that even seemingly harmless old posts can offer a surprising amount of insight into Personalities

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VaBQ TIL that a group of penguins in the water is called a “raft.” A group of penguins on land is called a “waddle.”
JYdMB TIL Rodney King died on Father’s Day in 2012 by drowning in a swimming pool. This was 28 years after his father died, also on Father’s Day, and also by drowning.
XEOOQ TIL Manatees regulate their buoyancy by storing and releasing farts
5y9 TIL that Steve Irwin’s last words were “Don’t worry, they usually don’t swim backwards”
xVZnw TIL That of the 50 destroyers transferred to the UK and Canada in the 1940 "Destroyers for Bases" deal, 9 were later loaned to the Soviet Union. Of these 9 the USS Herndon (DD-198), commissioned as HMS Churchill (I-45) in 1940; and transferred to Russia as Dyatelnyi in 1944 was the only one sunk.