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Fun Fact of the Day: “Colonel-in-Chief Sir Nils Olav is a King Penguin living in Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland. He is the mascot and Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard…On August 18, 2005, he was promoted to Colonel-in-Chief and on 15 August 2008 he was awarded a knighthood.

He is the first penguin to receive such an honour in the Norwegian army.”

[h/t: reddit.]

Posted on May 29, 2011 via The Daily What with 3,987 notes

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