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TIL 'Slav Squatting' is a learned behavior attributed to Russian prison culture to avoid sitting on the cold ground.

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XEAOk TIL When Gordon Ramsay filmed one of his cooking shows in a prison, he challenged an inmate to an onion chopping competition. The inmate won. When he was released from prison, Ramsay hired him to work in one of his restaurants in London
R7bjQ TIL some penguins have been recorded engaging in prostitution by trading sex with single males for nest-stones.
QNZke TIL of Hannie Schaft, a Dutch resistance fighter known as "the girl with the red hair" during WWII. She committed assassinations and sabotage but refused to kidnap a Nazi official's children. During her execution, she was shot and injured, challenging her killers by saying, "I shoot better."
Q1Nd TIL that there’s a variation of The Three Wise Monkeys, the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” monkeys covering their eyes, ears, and mouth(???). The variation contains a fourth monkey who covers its genitals to represent “do no evil”
DQ1bD TIL that IPHONE is a Chinese brand of leather products and none of them are phones, which is why Apple lost a legal battle against them and has to share the trademark for the word "iPhone" with them.