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TIL of Roald Amundsen. The first person to reach the North and South poles.

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LyvQ TIL Gregory W. Nemitz registered land on asteroid 433 Eros and sent NASA a $20 parking ticket for landing on parking space #29 when they landed a probe on the asteroid in 2000.
e068b TIL Vanna White, the lady on Wheel of Fortune who touches the letters when contestants choose them, makes $8 million per year and has a net worth of $140 million
gLJA TIL Jeffrey Dahmer would taunt prison employees by shaping his food into severed limbs, complete with ketchup to simulate blood
P1ERw TIL The average cost per barrel of oil in the 727 million barrel Strategic Reserve is $29.70
N0QQ TIL that, due to its isolation, a third of the plant life on the island of Socotra (Yemen) is found nowhere else on the planet. It has been described as “most alien-looking place on Earth”.