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

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Jd64 TIL that “Bizarre Foods” host Andrew Zimmern was once a homeless alcoholic and drug addict, who lived on the streets of NYC for a year. It got so bad that he sprinked a bottle of Comet Cleanser around the place so that he could sleep without the rats and roached bothering him.
wLG68 TIL: The Darien Gap is a 106 km gap of nearly impassible marsh and jungle between Panama and Columbia that prevents the construction of a highway/road between North and South America and is the only missing piece in connecting the Pan-American Highway
oBjL7 TIL that one Canadian tank, nicknamed "Bomb," never missed a day of service from when it landed in Normandy on D-Day until the surrender of Germany, firing over 6,000 rounds and taking two enemy hits across France, Belgium, and the Netherlands
p8AaG TIL in 1864, the Confederate Army forced Frederick, Maryland, to pay $200,000 or be burned to the ground. The town had to borrow the money from local banks and didn’t finish paying off the loans until 1951.
yQXw8 TIL Alexander Mackenzie was the first European to cross North America (north of Mexico)