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TIL Albatrosses are so adapted to their oceanic existence that they spend the first six or more years of their long lives (which last upwards of 50 years) without ever touching land.

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0d045 TIL Wishing to "put a tip of gold on a golden life", philosopher Peregrinus Proteus, promised to set himself on fire in public, and he delivered: on the final night of the 165AD Olympics, he lit his own funeral pyre near Olympia and jumped in after delivering his own eulogy to a crowd of spectators
p8g7A TIL that the US military was so unprepared leading up to WWII, General George Patton personally bought tools and parts from the Sears-Roebuck mail order catalog to get the 2nd Armored Division to operational status.
l1Or TIL Michael Jackson cast 80 members of the Los Angeles’ Crips and Bloods for the music video “Beat It” in hopes to foster peace between them.
wLBxP TIL about Lima Syndrome, the opposite of Stockholm Syndrome. It is a situation where the captors develop sympathy for their captives.
49LX TIL that in the 1800s, a brand of medicine called Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup contained morphine ended up causing the death of many infants and young children.