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TIL female penguins prostitute to get pebbles for their nests

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J1Bl1 TIL: In the late 1970’s, a radioactive Source of Cobalt-60 was smelted down to make rebar, and ~4000 people were exposed across Mexico and the US. The contamination was found in 1984, when a trucker took a wrong turn, into the Los Alamos Lab, setting off detectors.
9wdDB TIL that David Lee Roth, former vocalist of Van Halen, is a also a state-licensed emergency medical technician in New York. In 2012, he said: "I probably have over 200 9-1-1 calls on my ticket in the last six years alone. I live a very different life away from music."
eWxg TIL Louis CK gets stoned and watches 3D IMAX movies alone (at 14:00). “It’s my favorite thing in life”
nbEb TIL that people with a stutter can sing without stuttering because the brain functions differently while speaking than when singing
XEYxQ TIL during a visit to India, then PM of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif mentioned Raveena Tandon was his favorite actress. During the 1999 Kargil War, Indian soldiers wrote "From Raveena Tandon to Nawaz Shareef" on a bomb before dropping it over a Pakistani location.