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v1DEB TIL the Amundsen-Scott station at the geographic South Pole has a basketball court, gym, music room, craft room, library, sauna, and two TV/movie lounges.
9Em TIL Harvard Law library allegedly has a book bound by human skin.
JYb7Q TIL there was an official lord of the rings fan club (paid membership) prior to the movies and the entire charter of names is listed in each of the LotR film’s credits.
JYZ7j TIL that when Prince didn’t show up to sing on “We Are the World”, Huey Lewis sang his part
LJpP TIL a man cracked the knuckles on only one of his hands for sixty years to prove that knuckle cracking doesn’t cause arthritis, earning him the 2009 Ig Nobel Prize