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TIL that Chile has a civilian town in Antarctica, complete with a school, hospital, hostel, post office, internet, TV and mobile phone coverage.

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YDeZ TIL There is a clock in New Zealand that has been running since 1864 despite never having been manually wound.
mx5Wo TIL of Andy—a footless goose born in the 1980s who walked around in baby shoes. He rapidly became a huge star and appeared all over the media, before he was murdered in 1991. His death sparked a nation-wide outrage and a $10,000 reward for information about his killer, but the case was never solved.
nb17 TIL there is a thing called “Keeping up with the Kattarshians” which is a popular show in Iceland that shows a 24/hr live feed of cats inside a miniature house
gMRkW TIL that cats have an extra scent organ called the Jacobson's organ (vomeronasal sac) behind their teeth in the roof of their mouth. That's why they open their mouth when smelling sometimes.
E1bD7 TIL that Ray Bradbury said that Fahrenheit 451 is not about government censorship but about social censorship where the people are the culprit.