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

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9YA9p TIL of Hannah Senesh, a Jewish paratrooper and poet during the Holocaust. She was captured, tortured, and eventually executed, but never gave up her comrades. "I could have been twenty-three next July; I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost."
W7OKX TIL S. Korea has some of the strictest drug laws in the world. Citizens can be imprisoned 5 years for using cannabis, even in a legal area.
WxO8 TIL the U.S. Army created a giant four-legged robot in 1969. Called the “walking truck,” it could lift a jeep and walk 5 MPH, but it never saw field use because the operator - who controlled each limb with one of his own - would become exhausted after just 15 minutes.
Q5eL TIL that Iraq shuts down the internet to prevent cheating during school exams
XevQ TIL the monk fruit is a low calorie sweetener that is nearly 300 times sweeter than sugar.