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TIL that “tobogganing” is what you call when a penguin glides through their stomach

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dDNPB TIL that although Slide Mountain is widely accepted to be the tallest mountain in the Catskills range in New York, its exact height has never been formally measured.
yXNa TIL that when a bald eagle loses a feather, it will automatically shed the same feather on it’s other side to maintain balance.
XEpN6 TIL Devonte Hart, the 12 year old boy in the iconic photo hugging the cop, was murdered last year along with his 5 adopted siblings, by his parents.
KRAE TIL that a father in South Carolina almost lost custody of his infant daughter when she was put up for adoption by her mother. 33 states require unmarried fathers to register as ‘responsible fathers’ in order to retain the right to be notified of an adoption or termination of parental rights action.
OGDBg TIL that the film Some Like It Hot was made while the Hays Code was still operating and the film was one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"