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TIL All dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994

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rOBy TIL for a relationship to be happy, researchers say the ratio of positive to negative interactions needs to be 5:1
XeKD TIL that 600 years before Galileo, al-Biruni wrote that the earth rotates on its axis. Unlike Galileo, his ideas were accepted by religious scholars.
p8byQ TIL it is common for truck drivers in India to elaborately decorate their trucks with colorful ornaments, kaleidoscopic images, iconography and bangles/jewels to create a psychedelic looking "Home away from Home" in honor of their culture and their families. It's also excellent advertisement!
J1VA1 TIL about KMBC-TV news anchor Christine Craft who was removed from the anchor position in August 1981 after a focus group had determined she was "too old, too unattractive and wouldn't defer to men." Craft filed a Title VII lawsuit against Metromedia in which she won but later overturned on appeal.
8a9l8 TIL actor Oliver Reed died during a break from shooting Gladiator after winning a drinking match with British sailors. He "drank eight pints of German lager, a dozen shots of rum, half a bottle of whiskey and a few shots of Hennessy" and beat five young sailors at arm wrestling before collapsing.