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TIL there’s a university in Antarctica!

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R7YJ7 TIL You Could Download Video Games From the Radio in the 1980s
6Ewy8 TIL Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus, contains parts of the last primeval forest fragment of the European woodlands that once stretched across the European Plain. Since 2015 there has been a visa-free regime within the forest for hikers and cyclists between Poland and Belarus
b9QwN TIL that the Richter scale, used to measure the magnitude of an earthquake, is logarithmic, meaning every whole-number increase in the scale indicates a tenfold increase in the intensity.
lp0V TIL: Erin Pizzey started one of the first women’s shelters in Canada and the US. Pizzey received death threats and boycotts because of her claim that most domestic violence is reciprocal, and that women are equally capable of violence as men. Pizzey said that the threats were from militant feminists
4k9Bw TIL: Miami, Florida's Government Center metro station has a "ghost platform" for an East-West Metrorail line that was never built.