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TIL Wrocław Poland has Hundreds of Little Brass Gnomes Throughout the City

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yQNvX TIL The Man Who Inspired Father’s Day Was a Single Dad and a Civil War Vet
N74O1 An international team of scientists sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches in 2016. The reason? Scientists think cockroach milk could be the next superfood.
gM1AW TIL that in 1987, Fred Rogers visited the then-Soviet Union to film a segment for both his show, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and "Good Night, Little Ones!", Russia's longest-running children's program. Rogers was the first American to appear on the latter show.
9YdbD TIL after the police chief in a small New Mexico city stepped down, the only certified member of the police department was a drug sniffing dog named Nikka
XEQXX TIL Elderly Lion Couple at the Los Angeles Zoo that were soulmates were put to sleep at the same time so neither had to live alone