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TIL Demetri Martin wrote a full length poem that is also a palindrome.

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E1QNx TIL penguin poop will change Antartica's ecosystem. For the last 5,000 years, penguins have delivered roughly 16 million pounds of nutrient rich poop on the rocks of Antartica. This poop can one day support plants and animals which currently can't survive in Antartica.
oRDBL TIL the US occupied Iceland during WWII, after the British invaded (in order to prevent the Germans from doing the same)
0dvAA TIL "Union Pacific" retroactively won the first Palme d'Or. It was awarded by a jury in 2002, from a selection of films originally in competition at the cancelled 1939 Cannes Festival.
p7De TIL Heath Ledger kept a “Joker Diary” in which he wrote as the Joker, and included a list of things he thought the Joker would find funny, including blind babies and AIDS
AK17 TIL Keanu Reeves gave $80 million of his $114 million Matrix salary to special effects and makeup staff.