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TIL the oldest bones found in Antarctica belonged to an indigenous woman from Chile who died in her early 20s. Found on a beach, it's estimated she came to Antarctica between 1819 and 1825. There are no surviving documents explaining how or why a young woman came to be in Antarctica during this era
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TIL that sharpshooter Annie Oakley once shot a cigarette out of Kaiser Wilhelm II’s mouth during a performance in Germany.
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TIL about Qun Hui a traitor who had his rival Yue Fei executed through trickery. He is so hated that statues of him and his wife was made kneeling before the tomb of Yue Fei.
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TIL The most filmed location in the world is Central Park in New York City
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TIL in 2010, the Air Force Research Laboratory built the Condor Cluster, a supercomputer composed of 1,716 Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles. At the time, it was "about the 35th- or 36th-fastest computer in the world".
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TIL: of Suffrajitsu, a form of martial arts used by Suffragettes in the 1910s as self defense against public attacks on women fighting for the right to vote.
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TIL of the Desert of Maine, 20+ acres of ancient glacial sand dunes in the midst of a pine forest
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TIL they built churches in Antarctica
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TIL that the "Filioque controversy" was a major theological dispute between Eastern and Western Christianity over whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone or from the Father and the Son, contributing to the Great Schism.
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TIL Betty White hosted a prank show called Off Their Rockers beginning in 2012 when she was 90. It lasted for three seasons.
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TIL, that when Nelson Mandela left prison, one of the first places he visited was Ireland but he was only allowed to give a speach to the Dáil, one of the two houses of the Irish parliment, as speaking to both was a right reserved for Heads of State.
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TIL that it is possible for additional roadways to create more traffic rather than alleviate it, known as Braess' Paradox