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TIL the winning entry in last year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition was disqualified because the anteater it featured was stuffed.

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p85PN TIL of Raphael Lemkin, a Holocaust survivor who went on a one-man 15 year crusade to get genocide condemmed under international law.
LMnr TIL There was a large swastika made of larch trees in Germany that went unnoticed for 55 years
J7A4 TIL that Macaulay Culkin (kid from Home Alone) bought Marilyn Manson his first pack of cigarettes
e7nJ TIL that the Candiru Fish (the fish that supposedly swims up your pee stream) can’t actually swim up your pee stream, and can not enter your urethra. The only recorded case is from 1997 and shrouded in a lot of doubt.
bRop TIL that the Vietnam War is called the “American War” in Vietnam (fully the “War Against the Americans to Save the Nation”).