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TIL that the US exports to Antarctica are worth 6.51 Million dollars and imports are worth 168 thousand dollars.

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pMG8 TIL- In 1935 Congress “declared war on soil erosion and enlisted kudzu as a primary weapon. More than 70 million kudzu seedlings were grown in nurseries by the newly created Soil Conservation Service.”
1ayxV TIL That the Methuselah star maybe older than the estimated age of the universum.
4XA7a TIL Albert Hofmann, the discoverer of LSD, could not imagine anyone using the drug recreationally due to its intense and introspective nature.
ney7P TIL that a German submarine was forced to surface and subsequently bombed, because a crew member made a mistake while using the toilet. Instead of flushing, he opened a valve that flooded the u-boats batteries, casuing them to create a deadly gas.
JYo4k TIL the Wonder Bra was invented in Canada and was voted the fifth most important Canadian invention, higher than the pacemaker.