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TIL that penguins can drink saltwater thanks to a special gland near their eyes that filters out the salt. This allows them to survive in ocean environments without access to fresh water.

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X0oeP TIL Japan has used history textbook that contained references to the Nanjing Massacre, anti-Japanese resistance movements in Korea, forced suicide in Okinawa, comfort women, and Unit 731 since the mid 1990s.
OojM6 TIL a Nuclear Ballistic Missile was almost launched from McConnell Air Force Base in 1980 because a technician loaded the wrong data into a computer. The crew was able to avoid the launch after switching off the main power to the building.
m1KEo TIL That Dwane The Rock Johnson started his career in WWE with the name “Rocky Maivia”
wLrn8 TIL The word “Alphabet” is actually just the beginning of the Greek AlphaBet(a)
n19B TIL of Kremlin advisor Aleksandr Dugin’s 1997 book “Foundations of Geopolitics”, in which he calls for the annexation of Ukraine by Russia, for the UK to be cut off from Europe, and for the promotion of political chaos and isolationist tendencies in the USA