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TIL that in 1948 a man wore 30 pound,3 toed lead shoes and stomped around a Florida beach during the night.That footprints lead people to believe that a 15 foot tall penguin was roaming the land.He kept up the prank for 10 years, visiting other beaches.The hoax wasn't revealed until 40 years later.

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8aoGP TIL about El Caganer, literally translating to The Pooper, a popular addition to the nativity scene in the Catalonia region of Spain that depicts a peasant pooping in the background.
9Yr76 TIL Ryan North (Marvel writer) once got stuck in a skate pit with only "his dog Noam Chompsky, an umbrella, a leash, a t-shirt, and a pocket computer" after the rain had made the pit slippery. When he asked Twitter users for help, they found a way for him to combine those items that let him escape.
k0GB TIL that in 1986 Apple launched a clothing line.
9wvaD TIL that in the '80s the president of Zaire built a 3200 meter landing strip in the jungle next to his palace so he could charter Concord flights to Paris
p8kyb TIL 90% of the Earth's gravity reaches the ISS, and the reason the crew float in the spacecraft is due to "microgravity". In a vacuum like outer space, objects of any weight, fall at the same speed. Since astronauts and the spacecraft are falling together (around Earth), they appear to be floating.