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TIL The oldest flamingo lived to be 83. It arrived at Adelaide Zoo in Australia in 1933 and died in 2014.

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WknDo TIL although Nobel Prizes are not awarded posthumously, the 2011 Prize in Physiology and Medicine for Ralph M. Steinman still stands because the committee was unaware he had died three days before the announcement.
8eRnP TIL, the CIA hunted down top Nazi scientists after WWII, in hopes of convincing them to help develop weapons and the space program that took the US to the moon. These Nazis and their families received full American Citizenship and their war crimes were well known to the officers that found them
0DRv TIL that a holocaust denial group offered $50,000 to anyone who could prove that gas chambers were used to intentionally kill people at Auschwitz. They were forced by a judge to pay that money, and an additional $40,000, to Auschwitz survivor Mel Mermelstein who provided proof of that very fact.
VBAK0 TIL: The trousers of the British Royal Air Force WWIl uniforms had two buttons that served as a compass when put together.
LjaQ TIL that Leonardo DiCaprio blocked a film he was in from being released in the US and Canada. The producer of the film has released it on the Internet, and drafted a letter to Leo about it.