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TIL of an African pink flamingo that escaped a Kansas zoo who’s been living freely for 14 years

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694yX TIL: During World War 1, Canadian Soldiers Cunningly Exploited Germans' Trust by Offering Tins of Corned Beef, Only to Later Toss Grenades into Their Trenches
67yw TIL for $700, many girls in China pay for a surgery to restore their hymen before their wedding night to fake virginity so that husbands can see blood on the sheets during the honeymoon night.
OoML6 TIL 'Amor fati' describes an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary, in that they are among the facts of one's life and existence, so they are always necessarily there whether one likes them or not.
j6RMn TIL: Woden was an Anglo-Saxon god from which our day of the week Wednesday is named after. Woden had a career in curing horses and carrying off the dead, and Wednesday is his day (Woden’s day). Various spellings—wodnesdaeg, Weodnesdei, Wenysday, wonysday, Weddinsday have been used
R7yrw TIL Someone named TCP options types 16 and 17 “Skeeter” and “Bubba.” Apparently only the author knows why.