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TIL Dogs have been banned from Antarctica since 1994 due to fears that they could spread diseases to the native seal population.

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R5bb6 TIL mammoths were still alive as recently as 3730 - 4490 years ago
P1meV TIL When the Addams Family were introduced in 1938 as a single panel comic strip, they had no names. It wouldn’t be until nearly 30 years later that they received names, for the 1964 TV show. Even their last name wasn’t their’s at first. It was just the creator’s, Charles Addams.
R7r6 TIL in 1914, a 19yo British boy was court martialed for desertion. He was undefended and called no witnesses, as all of his comrades had been killed in action. He was hastily sentenced, and on September 8th became the first WWI soldier to be executed for desertion. He was finally pardoned in 2006.
gM5dA TIL a nearly worthless Mormon owned cow precipitated the start of the US war with the Lakota.
KYQ8B TIL Emma Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born in 2017 to a mother born in 1991.