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TIL of Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of the Bouvet Islands and colonel-in-chief of the Norwegian King's Guard who is a king penguin residing in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is officially recognised by the Guinness World Records as the world's highest-ranking penguin.

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nAnb TIL On June 28, 2009, Stephen Hawking held a party open to all, complete with hors d'oeuvres and iced champagne, but only publicized the party after it was over so that only time-travellers would know to attend; as expected, nobody showed up to the party.
b9E6Z TIL Pee Wee Herman got arrested for rubbing one out in a movie theater
W71eo TIL the DEA updated/clarified some rules & regs for controls including C2 transfers
Z8eJv TIL In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Highly prolific, Tagore was also a composer and wrote the national anthems for both India and Bangladesh and he started painting in his 60s
pPaG TIL the reason airplane bathrooms still have ashtrays is because of an FAA decision that some people will still smoke on an airplane even though it’s not allowed, and when they do there needs to be a safe place to put their cigarette butt.