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TIL that Antarctica is a desert

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ZGQY TIL in 1994, the operational head of the U.S. Public Health Service was fired for saying masturbation should be encouraged in order to prevent people from engaging in riskier forms of sexual activity.
LxVd TIL the members of the 1980s pop/rock band Toto were prolific session musicians. Their work includes Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. Collectively, the members have been recorded on over 5,000 albums, selling over 500,000,000 albums.
J1PE1 TIL about Operation Gunnerside; Just when the fuses were about to be lit, the caretaker of the heavy-water electrolysis chambers asked the saboteurs if they could help him find his glasses. The saboteurs obliged. They found his glasses, blew up the chambers and the saboteurs all got out alive.
b6pop TIL Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson killed this opponent Jimy Doyle after having a dream that he killed him in the ring.
D1jNP TIL of the Dobbertin Surface Orbiter, a all-terrain vehicle created from a stainless steel milk tanker, has covered 33,000 miles on land, has passed through 28 countries, transits the open ocean and is the first car to transit the Panama Canal.