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TIL that penguins propose with pebbles! Male penguins find the smoothest rock they can and offer it to their mate as a way to start building a family together.

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wDWW TIL that grunting in tennis is punishable by losing a point to the opponent. This is because some player’s grunts, like Maria Sharapova’s, whose grunt is nearly equal to that of a lion’s roar, can affect how the opponent returns the ball.
69L5W Til about Rick Rescorla who after saving 2700 people on 9/11 went back up to look for stragglers & who the book and movie “ “We were soldiers “ is based on
0wXmL TIL that an Orca killed a Great White Shark near California’s Farallon Islands in 2000. The smell of the dead shark's carcass caused all nearby great whites to vanish. A great white with a satellite tag in the area was seen to immediately dive to a depth of 500 meters and then swam to Hawaii.
6ErMX TIL Serial Killer Released Woman Whose Famous Father Had Played a Serial Killer in his Breakout Part
yXDa TIL there was a movie made 4 years before 9/11 that condemned the incompetency of government officials to prevent the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center towers from happening again; it’s called “Path to Paradise” (1997).