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STICKY You ever heard of Matar judíos? [720x2845 - 835KB]

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TIL Rosa Parks was not sitting in a whites-only section, she was actually sitting in the first row of the middle section for African Americans—the “colored” section.

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TIL American flamingos’ long legs appear as though their knees bend backwards, which is not the case. Flamingos actually stand on their “tip-toes” – meaning the prominent joint on their leg is their ankle! Their knee is hidden by feathers and is located close to the bird’s body.

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TIL former MLB pitcher Gaylord Perry reportedly approached the makers of Vaseline about endorsing the product and was allegedly rebuffed with a one-line postcard reading, "We soothe babies' backsides, not baseballs."

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TIL jet packing is similar to spooning. However, the "little spoon" is larger than the "big spoon, thus giving off the image of a human jetpack.

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TIL that two female performance artists decided to hitchhike through the Middle East to "send a message of peace." Their trip ended after three weeks when one of them was raped, robbed, and murdered.

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TIL that in 2009 an NY cop was placed in a psychiatric facility by fellow officers for releasing recordings that showed quotas were leading to police abuses such as wrongful arrests

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TIL humpback whales use their flippers to swat salmon into their mouths

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TIL cave glow-worms vomit long sticky urine threads to catch prey

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TIL Steve Bannon fucked children at epstein's in Paris

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TIL the unusual appearance of this egg-laying, duck-billed, beaver-tailed, otter-footed mammal baffled European naturalists when they first encountered it, and the first scientists to examine a preserved platypus body (in 1799) judged it a fake, made of several animals sewn together.

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TIL despite the song's references to dancing, and despite the demonstrations of the dance during performances, would-be censors believed the song "Willie and the Hand Jive" glorified masturbation.

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TIL Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr. separated shortly after their son Robert De Niro Jr. was born in August 1943 after De Niro came out as gay. In 1944, De Niro had a relationship with the poet Robert Duncan.

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TIL owls are found on every continent except Antarctica, and they also inhabit many remote island groups including the Hawaiian islands.

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TIL the barn owl makes almost no noise when it flies. This enables it to hear the slightest sounds made by its rodent prey hidden in deep vegetation while the owl is flying up to three metres overhead.

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TIL an owl has three eyelids: one for blinking, one for sleeping, and one for keeping the eye clean and healthy. The third eyelid is also called the nictitating membrane, and many other birds also have it, including other raptors as well as many ducks, anhingas, and dippers.

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TIL many owl species have asymmetrical ears. When located at different heights on the owl’s head, their ears are able to pinpoint the location of sounds in multiple dimensions. Ready, aim, strike.

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TIL holocaust survivor Chaim Ferster cheated death in eight Nazi concentration camps during World War Two.

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TIL that you can easily fix firefox and waterfox.

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Ball of Kerrymuir - Jim Croce - YouTube

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How many bones are in a skull.

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TIL Popeyes Chicken is 40+% soy

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A NetFlix Rarity. A Decent Docu/Film: The Magic Pill

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TIL some people think this is a sport

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THIS IS FARTA!!!!

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