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TIL The Penguins of Madagascar TV Show has a Primetime Emmy Award

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OGDQ7 TIL that Wincanton, in Somerset, UK is twinned with Ankh-Morpork--a fictitious town from Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series of books--and that the town is the first to name streets after their fictional equivalents.
0JX5 TIL that every year in ancient Athens, citizens could vote to banish ANY person from the city-state for 10 years.
ANLyo TIL: a 12-year-old Jewish violin prodigy named Motele Schlein, after witnessing his family’s murder by Nazis, joined the resistance and planted explosives in a restaurant where he performed, killing over 100 high-ranking Nazi SS officers
v6aj TIL the U.S. sells more weapons to Pakistan than it sells to Britain or South Korea
4kEkb TIL About the Edgewood Arsenal human experiment project conducted by the US Army chemical corps from 1948-1975 during which 7,000 soldiers were exposed to various nerve agents to test their results.