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TIL that penguins, do indeed have knees.
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TIL the father of Stephen Paddock, the deadliest mass shooter in US history, was a bank robber who was on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list from 1969 to 1977.
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TIL of the Petticoat affair. Between 1829 to 1831, nearly the entirety of Andrew Jackson's cabinet resigned after a group of their wives, led by Second Lady Floride Calhoun, socially ostracized Secretary of War John Eaton's wife Peggy because she didn't "meet the moral standards of a Cabinet wife."
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TIL that George Washington had said he would never set foot on British soil again; so some American soil was put under his Trafalgar Square statue in London to comply with his wishes.
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TIL of the "singing" Colossi of Memnon, two large statues of Pharoah Amenhotep III, which have been described throughout history as making low moaning, whistling, or blowing noises due to vaporizing dew escaping from cracks within the statues.
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TIL of the Accademia Vivarium Novum, a college in Rome and the only one in the world where ancient Latin and Greek are spoken exclusively and regularly both in and out of the classroom