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TIL Bulgaria has a research base in Antarctica.

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Br4Mx TIL: The hyphenating of an American’s ethnicity or origin was originally a nationalistic and disparaging epithet.
kOxMm TIL There Are Whales Alive Today Who Were Born Before Moby Dick Was Written
4XalN TIL about the game "Conkers," a traditional English childhood game using chestnuts
DG6D TIL when a prisoner is sentenced to be caned in Singapore, they aren’t told in advance when the sentence will be carried out, they need medical officials to certify they’re physically fit, and they are stripped naked and caned by trained officers who swing the 1.27cm thick cane at speeds up 160kph.
M7ogK TIL in the eighties in Japan there was a story-writing contest open to the public for a new Godzilla movie. It was won by a dentist and his story was made into the 1989 film 'Godzilla vs. Biollante'