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TIL all residents of Chile's permanent Antarctic settlement, Villa Las Estrellas, are required to have their appendixes removed as a safety precaution because of the limited availability of medical services on the icy continent.

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YYMW TIL in order to keep the title “Democratic”, North Korea holds elections every 5 years in which the ballots list only one candidate.
neem9 TIL- Even GitLab Has GitHub Account!
QYRk TIL in 1999, They Might Be Giants became the first major-label recording artist to release an entire album exclusively in mp3 format
VRNm TIL in July 1984 President Ronald Reagan called ice cream “a nutritious and wholesome food” and established National Ice Cream Month.
GYG1J TIL that the wonderful smell that happens after a rain shower is not one, but three distinct smells: ozone caused by lightning ripping through oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere, spores produced by common ground bacteria, and oils produced by plants during dry spells as an evolutionary safeguard.