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TIL that Tom Lehrer, a musician known for biting satire stopped performing because “Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize.”

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67a8 TIL Egyptian female protesters underwent virginity checks.
8aMPX TIL the woman in the famous "Migrant Mother" photo was Florence Owens Thompson, a Cherokee woman and widow who came from Oklahoma to California with her second husband during the Great Depression. Her 10 children all survived poverty and starvation and later bought her a house. She lived to be 80.
wojN8 TIL The bumblebee bat is the world’s smallest mammal. Found in Thailand and Myanmar, these bats have an average body length of just over 1 inch. Bumblebee bats are currently considered endangered.
N7Ol8 TIL that a zookeeper secretly grew a cannabis plantation inside the rhino enclosure at an Austrian zoo for years. He was the only one who had access to the enclosure and police made the discovery after a tip from a drug user.
jnpv TIL that there is a deleted scene in from Hancock (2008) in which Will Smith’s Character Super Ejaculates through the roof of his trailer.