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TIL that penguins, do indeed have knees.

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WkyaL TIL in 1935, a con man was arrested for selling his victims a "currency copier", purportedly capable of reproducing $100 bills. The day before his trial, he fashioned sheets into a rope and slipped out the window, pretending to be a window washer as he shimmied down the building.
VpGk TIL that Burma had an economic crisis in the late 80s because the president decided to cancel any currency that wasn’t divisible by 9 (his favorite number)
M7An0 TIL the Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse
jNQ8N TIL that one of the findings of the Kinsey Scale study was that men trended towards homosexuality more so than women, contrary to the perception that women were more homosexually inclined. Kinsey speculated that this perception was a product of "wishful thinking" on the part of heterosexual men.
Rjk8 TIL Chris Pratt sends Nick Offerman pictures of his poop: “I sent him a picture of a giant turd on his birthday, and I said, ‘You guys have the same birthday.’”