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TIL that as a child, Marshall Mathers (Eminem) was bullied so severely, he ended up in the hospital with a concussion and temporary blindness

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OoZEX TIL when King George V was near death in 1936, his doctor injected him with, "750mg of morphine and a gram of cocaine – enough to kill him twice over – in order to ease [his] suffering, and to have him expire in time for the printing presses of the Times, which rolled at midnight."
y8nM TIL that there are other photos of the Tiananmen Square tank man, showing the true size of the forces he stood up to as well as others fleeing in the foreground as he approaches the tanks.
XE7gk TIL that South Pole so much colder than the North Pole because it sits on top of a very thick ice sheet, which itself sits on a continent. The surface of the ice sheet at the South Pole is more than 9,000 feet in elevation--more than a mile and a half above sea level.
N7NOQ TIL in 2002 a glacier in Russia traveled 11 miles in 6 minutes, reaching a speed of 150 mph as it crashed into a village and killed 100 people.
oRWAr TIL that from 2002 until 2012, Papua New Guinea's national parliament only had one female legislator, an Australian-born white woman named Carol Kidu.