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TIL that doctors who are wintering at Australian Antarctic stations are required to have their appendix removed.

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9wMZ7 TIL the Turkish Airlines give a special 50% discount to family members of martyrs
dDME8 TIL on visit to Poland in 1977, president Jimmy Carter words were mistranslated as him wanting to "get to know the Poles carnally".
YaOd TIL there is an Orthodox Jewish prayer men say in the morning thanking god for not making them a woman.
kO1OE TIL it’s estimated that about 85 percent of hospitals still rely on pagers for communication.
x6Nd1 TIL Veronica Lake was six months pregnant at the beginning of production Sullivan's Travels (1941), a fact she did not disclose to director Preston Sturges until filming began. Costume designer Edith Head was tasked to find ways of concealing Lake's pregnancy.