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ZpPDQ TIL: Arctic means "Bear", and Antarctic "No bear", because the Big Dipper, "the greater she-bear", is always visible in the northern pole sky. The fact that there are Polar bears in the Arctic but not in the Antarctic continent is purely a coincidence.
k4ge TIL Mary J. Blige hit her own husband in the face and screamed, “What are you gonna do, Chris Brown me?”
jNnVn TIL That the U.S. has control over an island in the Indian Ocean which it got from the British who took it from Mauritius. It has a base on the island is named 'Footprint of Freedom' and the name of its camp is 'Camp Justice' while original inhabitants of the island are displaced from their homeland
7rAEX TIL an 18yo was arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system
5MB9 TIL: There’s a genetic mutation in 1 percent of the population that means they don’t need more than a few hours of sleep a night.