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TIL the CIA tried bribing the Singaporean Prime minister and he responded by leaking it to the press

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ppyZ TIL Lego has actual “master builders” (aka Certified Professionals). There are only 13 of them and they aren’t accepting any further candidates.
YlWv TIL that penguins can get depression and are committing suicide by wandering into the dangerous Antarctic mountains - and almost nobody knows why
LkoNd TIL that white Harvard student and seminarian Jonathon Daniels traveled to the south to fight against segregation and later died shielding a black girl from a special county deputy's gunfire.He was later made a martyr.
vBYL TIL that Ice-T came out with a song called “99 problems” 11 years before Jay-Z did, and they both have the same hook
6Edom TIL it is illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland. These animals need social interaction and can die of loneliness so an animal rights bill in 2008 required owners to have more than one. There are also rent-a-guinea-pig services for those who want to rent a friend for their pet.