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TIL that Gentoo penguins propose to one another with pebbles

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9Y5jm TIL over International Military Sports Council, made up of 134 countries, sends almost 10,000 servicemen to compete in the Military World Games. These are the military version of the Olympics. The most recent games were held in October, in Wuhan, China and only 100 countries participated.
rAk0 TIL The NVA said they could smell the American soldiers due to Marijuana usage, not eating indigenous foods of Vietnam and because they used scented soaps.
lodPV TIL about Benson rafts, huge rafts up to 1000 feet long made of thousands of logs lashed together that used to be floated across 1,100 miles of open ocean from the mouth of the Columbia River to San Diego as a cheaper alternative to sending the logs by rail.
Br1Wd TIL the man who is credited with launching America’s fitness revolution and popularizing jogging’s health benefits died of a heart attack while jogging.
nPX7 TIL that Jackie chan sang “I’ll make a man out of you” in Chinese in mulans extra footage