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TIL that Charles Darwin ate every animal he ever discovered

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6EQd8 TIL of Point Nemo. It is a point in the ocean which is furthest possible point away from any land mass. At certain times, the closest humans to this point are on the International Space Station.
78Yxr TIL what Jamie Hyneman (Mythbusters) has been up to- he built a Wildfire-fighting Tank with Palmer Luckey (Oculus founder) and Jim Newton (Techshop founder).
grl89 TIL Kandahar, Afghanistan was named after Alexander the Great, who named it Alexandria in Arachosia in 330BC. The name evolved from "Iskandar" (pronounced "Scandar"), the local dialect version of the name Alexander.
PBoG TIL of Yang Kyoungjon, a Korean soldier who fought in the Imperial Japanese Army, captured and forced into the Soviet Red Army, and later recaptured and forced into the German Wehrmacht during World War II, eventually being captured and freed by paratroopers of the US army in 1944.
mWBM TIL when the Great Depression began in 1929, US was the only industrialized country in the world without unemployment insurance or social security.In 1935, Congress passed the Social Security Act, providing Americans with unemployment, disability and pensions for old age