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TIL Australia has claimed the largest territory of Antarctica

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6A1J TIL that the Dominican Republic offered to take 100,000 Jews in 1938, only 645 made it, and each one was given 80 acres of land, 10 cows, a mule, and a horse.
xVL81 TIL Owls don't have eyeballs. The eyes are long and shaped more like a tube. Owl eyes can't turn in their sockets because of this shape.
VM4p4 TIL that elephants walk on their tippy toes and have a padding under their heels similar to a person wearing high heels.
ZWwR TIL Scientists created a clock that won’t lose a second in 13.7 billion years
1oLX TIL Norwegian soldiers of the Telemark Battalion fighting in Afghanistan sometimes cried ‘To Valhalla, Oorah!’