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0wLX1 TIL There is an Island in France where donkey wear Trousers.
oZa7 TIL that despite later becoming an icon of the south, the confederate flag was never the national flag of the Confederate States of America
BrMyD TIL that the most accurate simulation of the human brain ever has been carried out, but a single second’s worth of brain activity took one of the world’s largest supercomputers 40 minutes to calculate.
GAwJ4 TIL the emperor penguin is a very powerful bird. In one case, a crew of six men, trying to capture a single male penguin for a zoo collection, were repeatedly tossed around and knocked over before all of the men had to collectively tackle the bird, which weighs about half as much as a man.
X0jmR TIL in the 1946 California gubernatorial election, Earl Warren was the nominee for both the Republican and Democratic Party. He won with 91.64% of the vote and the candidate in second place was the nominee for the Prohibition Party.