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TIL that there is a region in Antarctica that is so dry, that not even ice can form there. It hasn't seen rain in nearly 2 million years and is host to unique lifeforms.

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jNoR TIL that TRON (1982) was disqualified from receiving an Academy Award nomination for special effects, because the Academy felt using computers was “cheating”.
R9o7 TIL in The Netherlands, people swear with diseases. Get someone angry enough and they may wish syphilis on you. (Or cancer, tuberculosis, smallpox, etc.) The more serious the disease, the more seriously you have angered them.
V5GB TIL that shower-arguments have a name, Jouska. A hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
kJBpB TIL Stonehenge was once owned by a man named Cecil Chubb. Who bought it for £6,600 in 1916. Roughly about half a million pounds back then. He gifted it back to the UK shortly after.
gMnRb TIL there are PTSD service dogs who wake veterans up from nightmares, alert of high blood pressure or cortisol levels in the blood, dial suicide hotlines & 911 on a dog-friendly phone, and more.