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TIL that male Gentoo penguins propose to females by giving them a pebble. If the female accepts the pebble, they become a mated pair and use the pebble to build their nest.

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m4rM TIL the word “spam” used to only refer to the canned meat until a Monty Python sketch associated it with terms such as “repetition” when it showed a restaurant menu listing mostly spam-related meals.
wLveW TIL of Dr. Sanduk Ruit who has successfully cured over 130,000 people of blindness.
b8g7 TIL that in 2002, Irish police raided a judge’s home and found child pornography on his computer, but the judge was found ‘Not Guilty’ of possession as the warrant used was one day out of date.
OmDY TIL that Omnism, a belief system, is the recognition and respect of all religions; Omnists say that all religions contain truths, but that no one religion offers all that is truth.
69NVQ TIL A zettabyte is enough storage for 30 billion 4K movies, or 60 billion video games, or 7.5 trillion MP3 songs. Current estimates predict the world will produce 175 zettabytes of data a year by 2025.