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TIL Montana holds the world record for temperature change in a 24 hour period

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d8yLQ TIL of Gef, an apparent spirit that haunted a family on the Isle of Mann in the 1930s, which took the form of an 'extra extra clever' 'ghost in the form of a mongoose'.
5YNBp TIL the waterbed was invented by Scottish physician Neil Arnott in 1833 to “prevent bedsores in invalids”
AN1gx TIL That Rockstar Games Sold Pirated Copies Of Their Own Games Due To DRM Issues; These Included Manhunt, Max Payne and Midnight Club
yQPrv TIL of Saturn, an American Alligator born in 1936, who is rumoured to have met Hitler and survived the Battle of Berlin as one of only 96 out of 16000 animals from the Berlin Zoo to survive WW2. He was moved to Moscow Zoo after the war where he still lives today.
WneB TIL every year at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, after the last plane has left for the winter, the remaining scientists hold a screening of John Carpenter’s “The Thing”, which is about a shape-shifting alien that terrorizes scientists trapped at an Antarctic research station.