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TIL the smell of metal is actually Body Odor

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GAwJ4 TIL the emperor penguin is a very powerful bird. In one case, a crew of six men, trying to capture a single male penguin for a zoo collection, were repeatedly tossed around and knocked over before all of the men had to collectively tackle the bird, which weighs about half as much as a man.
78ZKX TIL Convicted spy Robert Hanssen frequently visited a stripper to give her gifts in an attempt to convert her to Catholicism
ybJa TIL If a wild boar gets loose in St. Paul or Minneapolis the Commissioner of Agriculture himself has to go out and capture that wild boar by law.
EgJdx TIL that rats are not allowed to settle in Alberta - Canada by the Government of Alberta. They have an active Rat Control Program to protect against rat invasions of their territory.
6EpGZ TIL The first person to actually look at Saturn in a telescope was Galileo. He saw a strange oval-shaped planet. He thought the planet might have ears, or two small balls on either side. Later observations showed that these were actually Saturn’s grand ring system