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TIL Some ducks have been observed floating through tidal rapids or fast-moving sections of rivers, and when they’ve reached the end, they hurry back to the beginning to ride over and over.

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a8eM TIL that there have been studies to find out just how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop. According to a Purdue study, its about 364.
0jNM TIL Thomas Grasso’s last meal before his execution was 24 mussels, 24 clams, a double cheeseburger, 6 ribs, 2 strawberry milkshakes, half a pumpkin pie, strawberries, and a can of SpaghettiOs. His final statement was, “I did not get my SpaghettiOs. I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.”
m1vYP TIL that if South Korea enters a state of war, its army becomes subordinated to a US Army general from the Combined Forces Command, not the President or another Korean.
4k4lR TIL in 2011, a South Korean mall had to be evacuated after a 17-person dance class matched the natural resonance of the building it to violently shake for 10 minutes
xV7pw TIL about Xia Peisu, “The Mother of Computer Science in China.” With the country isolated from the rest of the world, she managed to develop the first indigenous PC, the Model 107, and to create the first schools in computer science.