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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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7rX6P TIL Batman was originally going to have blond hair, a small domino mask, and no desire for a secret identity. It resembled nothing like a bat and nothing how we know Batman today. Thankfully, Bill Finger stepped in and added some major changes to resemble the legendary Batman, we know today
b9Bj7 TIL Although not audible to the human ear, the secret voices of plants have revealed that cucumbers scream when they are sick, and flowers whine when their leaves are cut. There's also evidence that plants can hear themselves being eaten.
l7nmA TIL The US military used "cloud seeding" to extend the rainy monsoon season during the Vietnam War to damage bridges, ruin roads, and cause landslides. "Weather Modification" is now banned by the Geneva Conventions
NBoM TIL that after the extinction of the dinosaurs, there was a turtle that was the size of a car and could eat crocodiles.
5Y7E8 TIL about Spring-Heeled Jack, a mysterious boogeyman that was said to ring residents of Londons’ doorbells dressed as a bear, a ghost or a devil and scratch them with metal claws before leaping away with unnatural agility. Sightings of him stretched from 1837 to 1904.