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TIL: There is a slightly smaller, almost identical penguin to the emperor penguin, called a king penguin

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RN98 TIL France is the only country in Europe to be completely self-sufficient in basic food production.
p8Vdp TIL, In 1963, George Harrison was asked by executives at a party if there were any decent groups to sign, he replied "you want to get The Rolling Stones"
kJGBB TIL that in the 1948 California Supreme Court case Perez v. Sharp, the County of Los Angeles included quotations from Mein Kampf in arguing that the state’s ban on interracial marriage should be upheld.
m1lMO TIL in Wisconsin your first DUI is only a civil offence. and not a felony until your fourth.
b64jN TIL that historically, syphilis was treated by infecting patients with malaria to induce fever. About 15% of patients died from malaria, but this was considered better than the near-certain death from syphilis.