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TIL There are only two ATMs in Antarctica, and they are both right next to each other

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4XXQN You know, just in case
4kPDR TIL that the Princess Taiping would have been the first traditional Chinese junk to sail to America and back—if it didn't get rammed by a Norwegian tanker with 30 miles left
nel5b TIL during The Great War, China sent 185,000 workers (100,000 in UK, 35,000 in France, 50,000 in Russia) to work in the European front, for various tasks: unloading military goods, digging trenches, constructing barracks and field hospitals, burying victims of war, working in armament factories.
W7E8L TIL in WW2, Japan interned 130,000 British, Dutch, and American civilians. 14,000 of them perished as a result
Z8AEv TIL in 2016, a 155-year-old mousetrap kept on display in a museum in Berkshire caught a mouse.