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TIL at least 10 children have been born in Antarctica.

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OG4y6 TIL Norway has the largest single sovereign wealth fund in the world, at $1.6 Trillion in assets. Larger than the sovereign wealth funds of China, Saudi Arabia and the UAE
8vkb TIL the package that Tom Hanks did not open in “Castaway” contained “a waterproof, solar-powered satellite phone” according to Robert Zemeckis
obZr TIL Georg Von Trapp Killed 684 French Sailors during WWI. His family would be later be the basis for “The Sound of Music”.
ZW9a TIL: the reason cats and snakes have vertical pupils is because it increases their depth perception while hunting at night while prey animals such as sheep have horizontal pupils so that they may have a panoramic view of their surroundings to watch for predators
MmZ0 TIL at the age of 17 Bill Hicks’ parents took him to a psychologyst, who, at the end of the session, told him “it’s them, not you”.