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TIL that Maria Leijerstam rode a tricycle from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole

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WkDKL TIL that the Japanese band B'z - virtually unknown outside their home country - has more certified album sales than Britney Spears, Guns N' Roses, Prince, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan, Cher, David Bowie and many others.
kEb7 TIL Folk-hero John Henry (who according to legend, beat a steam drill in a tunnel-digging contest, and who died soon after from exhaustion), may have actually been a real person.
J1MO8 TIL that, in the UK, if you have bought gold jewelry since 1984, it is likely to contain traces of gold stolen in the £26 million Brink's-Mat robbery.
P1keV TIL that the Suez Canal closed for eight years from 1967-1975, costing billions in trade
a5Jo TIL that in 2007 Paul Boyd, an animator for cartoon series Ed Edd ‘n’ Eddy, was shot dead in public by police after suffering a breakdown from his bipolar disorder