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TIL MDMA is 100 years old this year

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kJVpm TIL in the 1960s Australian researchers brought four VW Beetles to Antarctica as their main mode of transportation across the barren frozen continent.
aw4v9 TIL most internet data is not transferred across continents by satellites. Instead, 97% of intercontinental data is transferred through hundreds of thousands of miles of cables at the bottom of the ocean.
rN61e TIL the oldest professional football club of any code in the world is Melbourne Demons in the AFL
GYbRN TIL that a quarter of all British land forces during the American Revolution were actually German auxiliaries or mercenaries.
Agma Today I learned Jingle Bells is actually a Thanksgiving song.