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TIL after a Soviet doctor in Antarctica had to remove his own appendix, all Austrialian doctors must have theirs removed before allowed to stay there.

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Da7v TIL that Guantanamo Bay has a McDonalds.
ZxJ4 TIL a town in North Carolina, fed up with Time Warner, built their own isp called Greenlight. Time Warner’s response was to lobby the state senate.
JYpN8 TIL Early ancestors of Whales once walked on land. And that whales (and dolphins, orcas etc) evolved AFTER dinosaurs went extinct.
a8pGo TIL Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera was the first black athlete to become an Olympic gold medalist as a member of the France squad that won the title at the first Olympic rugby tournament at Paris in 1900. He also won the bronze in the tug of war at the same Games.
9wPVQ TIL Orson Welles once accidentally pelted his audience with arrows. Welles was doing Henry the Fifth in Boston and had set the archers to shoot offstage, but it was a rotating stage. Welles had noticed the problem but expected the Harvard students to not foolishly shoot into the crowd, he was wrong.