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

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GA1yQ TIL a 19 year old East German stole a 10 ton Soviet armored personnel carrier and drove full-speed into the Berlin Wall, got caught in barbered wire and shot twice before West German bar patrons rescued him.
LQOQZ TIL that in his famous paper, Computing Machinery And Intelligence, Alan Turing recommended that the Turing Test be performed in a 'telepathy-proof room' so the human couldn't use psychic powers to identify the computer
a88JN TIL human egg fertilization isn’t determined by the fastest sperm but rather the egg sending chemicals to attract particular sperm it chooses
GYWKj TIL that NASA's 50-year project to research gravity and prove Einstein's theory of gravity was nearly abandoned after its research probe's instruments were off. It was saved by the donations of Turki Al Saud, a Saudi Prince whom holds a PHD in Aeronautics and Astronautics
Yp8rW TIL that Singapore is the most food secure country in the world, with Venezuela coming in last place