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TIL that in 2014 scientists created a mini penguin rover, or “trojan horse” to learn more about emperor penguins.

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veMK TIL The theme park “Epcot” at Walt Disney World, Florida is actually an acronym. It stands for “Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow”
oa08 Today I Learned of the Tulsa Center of the Universe. An acoustic anomaly located in Oklahoma. When one stands in the center of the circle and makes a noise, that noise is echoed back several times louder than it was made, but no one standing outside the circle can hear a thing.
gYO4 TIL Bill Murray once gave director Wes Anderson $25000 for a helicopter rental for the film Rushmore As disney would not pay due to cost cuts
d8moK TIL 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered each year, and just a single one is enough to kill fish in a stream. Cigarette fragments have been found in 70 percent of seabirds and 30 percent of sea turtles.
0571 [TIL] Four months after shooting American Sniper Chris Kyle dead, Eddie Routh confessed “I was just riding in the back seat of the truck, and nobody would talk to me. They were just taking me to the range, so I shot them. I feel bad about it, but they wouldn’t talk to me.”