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TIL that Antarctica was not discovered until 1820

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Xpjj TIL that Philip K. Dick never saw the completed version of “Blade Runner” and Ridley Scott never finished reading “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”
nWLd TIL that there is a brain-eating amoeba (Naegleria Fowleri) that lives in fresh-water bodies. It can kill a human in 7 days. Death rate is 98% and there is no effective treatment against it.
k9rE TIL that in 1937, a gas leak in the basement at the local school in New London, Texas caused a massive explosion which killed almost 300 children and teachers, the deadliest school disaster in US history. Adolf Hitler even sent his condolences by telegram.
Ypayr TIL in 2003, unnatural-looking skeletal remains measuring "six inches long" were found... genetic analysis show the unknown baby suffered a staggering number of defects including progeria, dwarfism, and scoliosis
e0le5 TIL of the Sodder children disappearance. The Sodder family still believes that 5 of its children who disappeared after a fire burned their house in 1945, were actually kidnapped by Mussolini in retaliation to George Sodder’s criticism of his regime