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TIL that the Norwegian army has knighted a penguin
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TIL of the Cokeville Elementary School Hostage Crisis. Where David Young stormed into a school with his wife, armed a bomb, and held 70+ students hostage. After 2 hours the bomb went off, but due to a series of coincidences, all hostages survived. Children later reported seeing angels.
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TIL British spymaster Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the first head of the MI6 and the inspiration of James Bond's M, started the practice of using semen as invisible ink during WWI. It worked well, until they realised that the letters smelled awful when received.
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TIL: North Korean archaeologists announced to the world in 2012 they “discovered” lair of the UNICORN ridden by legendary King Tongmyung 2000 years ago.
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TIL up until around the 1970s, hospital laboratory workers used mouth pipetting to transfer patient's blood for testing from one container to the next, frequently getting the patients blood or other chemicals in their mouth.
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TIL That Avatar: The Last Airbender won a Peabody Award for “multi-dimensional characters, unusually complicated personal relationships for a cartoon serial, and a healthy respect for the consequences of warfare”