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TIL Antarctica doesn't have any permanent citizens and has no indigenous population. Only 11 children are known to have been to be born there.

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b6bE TIL Stanley Kubrick’s decision to only use classical music in what would become the iconic soundtrack for “2001: A Space Odyssey”, was made last minute in post-production. Alex North, who’d written an entire score for the film, didn’t find out his music had been discarded until the premiere.
l7Pj7 TIL Franklin the Turtle was inspired based on a line from an episode of MAS*H
M7xK7 TIL that the oldest English recipe for an Indian-style curry dates to 1758
8a4mK TIL that one of the most popular characters in the Attack On Titan anime, Levi, was not in the live action remake because the name was too difficult to write in Japanese
xVG5k TIL after the murder of his father, Genghis Khan went into poverty, even being enslaved at one point. It wasn’t until he was in his 50’s did he rise to power and become the Khan of Mongolia