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TIL About Boulders Beach, a beach in Cape Twon, South Africa with African penguins. The penguins are an endangered species, so they are protected by the Cape Nature Conservation.

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b9Ayp TIL of Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. - a United States Army Major, and a former warrant officer in the 123rd Aviation Battalion of the 23rd Infantry Division, who's been credited with ending one of the United States' greatest war crimes- the Mỹ Lai Massacre, in Sơn Mỹ, Vietnam
dMb8 TIL that Al Queda’s strategy involved specifically using terrorism to provoke the West into long wars in numerous places that would lead to its financial collapse.
jMrX TIL Egyptian women would urinate on wheat and barley seeds to find out if they were pregnant. They could even tell if it was a boy or girl.
Me5LV TIL the Chinese city of Fancheng held out for nearly 6 years against the Mongols - until Kublai Khan's nephew sent him Muslim engineers from Iran that built counterweight trebuchets, with a range of 1,600 ft. and launching projectiles weighing 660 lbs. The city fell within a few days.
O0Y6 TIL the seahorse often sings while it’s mating.