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TIL that cheetas chirp like birds and it is SO cute.

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pbLp TIL There is a Statue Outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul Dedicated to the Victims of the Japanese Sex Slave Trade During WWII
GYVM7 TIL that Marie Skłodowska Curie, the first and only woman awarded twice a Nobel Prize, married with Pierre Curie (Nobel Prize for Chemisty), had a daughter that was awarded too, jointly with his husband in 1935. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.
xVjV7 TIL During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes." The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of human shoe prints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.
D1kVg TIL that chimney sweeps use to use live geese to sweep chimneys.
YpKKx TIL it is essentially impossible to keep great white sharks in captivity due to their dietary needs and tendency to travel extremely long distances. The longest record is 198 days for a juvenile great white.