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TIL Facebook doesn’t allow breastfeeding photos.

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OoPZ1 TIL octopuses have been observed acquiring shiny and reflective objects and planting them around their homes in the sea bed like a garden. The song “Octopus’s Garden” by the Beatles was inspired by the captain of a boat informing Ringo Starr of this fact while on vacation.
X0mQE TIL that the early 1910s/1920s Winnipeg Falcons hockey team was almost entirely made up of Icelandic-Canadians who had been excluded from playing elsewhere because of their immigrant origins. They went on become the 1920 Canadian champs and represent Canada in the 1920 Olympics, where they won gold.
x6DXo TIL of The Deadly Sinking of the USS Indianapolis in which of a crew of only 1196 only 316 survived. The sinking was made worse because the USS Indianapolis was not recorded leaving Tinnan for Leyete.
Wk97Y TIL during WWII, American POWs in Japan had a 40% chance of dying compared to American POWs in Germany who had a 1% chance of dying.
VMjdG TIL that Bubbles, Michael Jackson’s former pet Chimp, currently resides at a sanctuary for “retired” Hollywood Apes/Monkeys. Other “celebrities” include Sam from Dunston Checks in, and Bella, the 2004 Career Builder Campaign.