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TIL that BBC News is available in Pidgin English

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D1O1p TIL baby otters can’t swim when they are born. It can take baby otters months to learn how to swim depending on their species. Sea otter moms need to carry babies on their belly or place them in kelp beds until they learn how to swim properly on their own.
aYyA TIL after an American Idol contestant was rejected by the judges, he told them to “Be careful” (a common way of saying “Farewell” in Louisville ). The judges bristled immediately and took the comment as a threat.
9Y0AG TIL cartoonist Otto Eppers was charged with attempted suicide after surviving a jump off of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1910. A judge dismissed the charge commenting “Well, he seems very much alive, doesn't he?”
9YXW6 TIL:Britney Spears' alcoholic drug addicted father controls all her money and finances.
LQlD9 TIL that influenza originated as an indirect result of the domestication of pigs and ducks