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TIL a few dozen staff occupy the research station at the South Pole during polar winter(6 months of night). An annual tradition is a back-to-back-to-back viewing of The Thing from Another World (1951), The Thing (1982), and The Thing (2011) after the last flight has left for the winter.

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gBDX TIL The scars on the face of The Joker (The Dark Knight) is a wound called a Glasgow smile. It originated in Glasgow, Scotland but became popular with English street gangs. Actor Tommy Flanagan was given one when he was attacked outside a bar in Scotland.
byPj TIL Adolf Frederick, former King of Sweden, died after eating a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, kippers and champagne, which was topped off with 14 servings of semla served in a bowl of hot milk. He is remembered as “the king who ate himself to death.”
l7KRa TIL about Orotidine 5'-phosphate decarboxylase, an enzyme known for its extreme efficiency, it accelerates a certain reaction that would take normally 78 million years to 18 milliseconds.
KO1K6 TIL : The Hypodermic Needle Theory is a linear communication theory which suggests that media messages are injected directly into the brains of a passive audience. It suggests that we're all the same and we all respond to media messages in the same way.
kOoWB TIL that it's estimated there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on earth, but there are more atoms in one grain of sand than there are stars in the universe... and I just can't wrap my head around that.