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TIL there’s a university in Antarctica!

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D1MNp TIL there are more than three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor.
nerEr TIL - Airline Engine Manufacturers occasionally test how well their engines can withstand the impact of a flock of birds. To do this, they use what is called a "Chicken Gun"; where they fire dead chickens into a running engine through a large diameter cannon.
OoZRY TIL teaching creationism (the theory that God created the Universe) has been banned in publicly funded schools in the UK since 2014. The scientific theory of evolution must be taught instead.
7MAX TIL there is a typewriter that types only in Comic Sans, called the “Sincerity Machine”
Yp0gG TIL there are languages with no words for numbers, and people who speak them have trouble keeping track of amounts higher than 5