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TIL That Antarctica is approximately 1.5 times larger than the United States.

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Akpx TIL of Rodriguez, a failed folk-singer from Detroit. While working hard labor all his life, he unknowingly had become more famous than Elvis & the Beatles in South Africa and only found out 30 years later. Oh, and the documentary about his life is nominated for an Oscar tonight.
Bryor TIL that despite discovering the cure for scurvy as early as 1497 by Vasco de Gama's crew, it was repeatedly forgotten, discredited, 'rediscovered' and messed around for hundreds of years despite scientific research. It continued killing people till Vitamin C was finally isolated in 1932
pYmQG TIL whilst on the set of City By The Sea Anson Mount ran lines for his next film, Crossroads, with the help of Robert De Niro reading the role of Britney Spears
4XGvN TIL the name of "Germany" in the Navajo language means "Metal Cap-wearer Land", referencing the distinctive wartime steel helmets. In Plains Cree, it is "Among the Steel Helmets", and in Lakota, it is "Bad Speaker Land".
b6Dp7 TIL "may you live in interesting times" is not a Chinese curse