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TIL that Gentoo penguins propose to one another with pebbles

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j84a TIL someone remade the entire Titanic movie using the Sims 2.
D8re TIL of the smoke filled room experiment, which shows that even if there’s smoke filling a room people will stay for as long as 20 minutes if no one else is reacting to it. Otherwise they’d leave quickly.
O4mY TIL in 1945 a group of Russian school children presented a US Ambassador with a carved US Seal as a gesture of friendship. It hung in his office for 7 years before discovering it contained a listening device.
rNKN4 TIL that a Souvenir factory new dragon lore from CS:GO sold for more than 15 Rolexes assuming they’re all $12,000
WwdA TIL in 1795, as Joseph Haydn conducted the premiere of his 102nd symphony, the audience pressed forward out of their seats to get closer to the famous composer. Moments later, a chandelier crashed to the floor where the seats had emptied, killing no one and giving this piece the name “The Miracle”.