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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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OGLe4 TIL about the uncanny valley, which describes the unsettling feeling caused by a robot or computer generated model that looks almost human but is not convincing enough to look like an actual human
W1GY TIL during the Tiananmen Square incident Chinese agents were tasked with spotting foreign journalists taking pictures from their hotel room windows. After determining their room number an entry team would batter down the door and try and seize any film.
VM6L8 TIL that prior to the 19th century in The UK, the differentiation between a city and a village was whether or not the area had a cathedral.
D1J TIL That Actor Christopher Lee, Witnessed the Last Public Guillotine Execution in France.
lom8N TIL a fan asked the studio making the 2018 Spider-man game on twitter to include a marriage proposal as an easter-egg which they agreed to do. They wrote "Maddie will you marry me?" on a theater marquee in the game but the couple broke up before the game was even released and it is still there.