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TIL Antarctica has 8 churches

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BX1x TIL J.B.S. Haldane, in order to find out about the effects of pH on the body, drank hydrochloric acid and sat in an atmosphere of 6-7% carbon dioxide
b6PRN TIL Keith Thibodeaux aka Richard Keith, who played Little Ricky on I Love Lucy was paid $461 a week. At age 3 he was making $500 a week playing drums on tour. Today he would be making 5,123.55 a week doing the same gig at the same pay scale.
VB5k TIL in 2011 a 75-year old woman stole some fiber optic cable, cutting 2 entire countries off the internet.
Gj51 TIL that lie detectors aren’t reliable, and the creator of the polygraph himself called the machine a “Frankenstein’s Monster” due to law enforcements use of it.
M7RgB TIL that 90% of indigenous people of Americas were wiped out because of "disease". Not because of technological advances of europeans which was my previous belief.