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TIL Albatross seabirds can live over 50 years & mate when they’re 5-years-old. They stay with the same partner for 45+ years making it among the longest relationships in the animal world.

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NkXQ TIL Chinese tourists in North Korea has been criticized for throwing sweets at North Korean children ‘like they’re feeding ducks’
ZZl4 TIL that tricky, weak male cuttlefish change their skin color in order to appear female, they then sneak past the unaware males and mate with the females, occasionally several, right under their mate’s nose.
GEJG TIL the quote “A prison becomes a home if you have the key” was coined by George Sterling as an explanation for the vial of cyanide he always carried with him, and ultimately used to kill himself.
ANOXn TIL the Narrator of Forensic Files (Peter Thomas) was a WWII army veteran who at Age 19, stormed the beaches of Normandy, fought in the Ardennes Offensive, and earned the Purple Heart and Bronze Star
7yPO TIL On the set of Titanic, an angry crew member put PCP into the soup that James Cameron and other crew members ate, sending more than 50 people to the hospital.