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TIL A king penguin in Japan was rescued and nursed back to life. He refused to leave, and now lives with the family. He has his own extra cold room, and he goes out on walks around the neighbourhood to pick up groceries.

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9wZvm TIL that the British children's TV show 'Blue Peter' has many dogs, cats, and other animals that appear; viewers often name the pets. When George, a tortoise, was thought dead in 1988, a special tribute episode appeared, but he was merely missing and was found alive. George lived another 16 years.
kJlMe TIL that Frank Iero from My Chemical Romance was visited by the Secret Service after he released a song called "I Am Going to Kill the President of the United States of America". He was threatened with 5 years in prison if he ever played the song live again.
malp TIL of Rotherham, England. A town where approx. 1400 sexual child abuse cases occurred but were never solved because those in charge didn’t want to be deemed as racist and for fear of losing job.
d8G67 TIL: Dennis Rodman only has 28 siblings, previously thought to be 46, according to his father Philander.
ZpZyv TIL 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded