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TIL that Manta Rays live in groups of friends that are not necessarily family, a behavior very rare in nature

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oY8E TIL a man lived in a French airport departure lounge for 17 years. He entered the airport and ‘lost’ his passport. As he had no passport he could not fly to his destination, the UK, but he had entered France legally so could not be expelled.
KOmpR TIL about the number of attempts to burn down the Gävle goat, including one where the online webcams keeping watch were attacked by a DoS attack, just before the goat was burnt
RAQj TIL in the 1960s South Korea secretly trained misfits plucked from prison or off the streets to sneak into North Korea and slit the throat of its leader, Kim Il-sung. When the mission was aborted, the men mutinied, killed their trainers and fought their way into Seoul before blowing themselves up.
OG6vL TIL JT LeRoy wrote two novels on his tragic childhood, dubbing him a genius of his generation, sparking a race for their film rights. He was friends with celebs like Madonna & Winona Ryder, talking to them for hours over the phone. It turns out JT Leroy didn’t exist and was in fact entirely made up.
QJBdX TIL that the shape of the human penis has evolved to remove another man's semen from a women's vagina