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TIL the crew of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station have an annual winter tradition where they watch all three versions of “The Thing”, a horror film about an alien lifeform that attacks researchers on an Antarctic base.

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DQOjp TIL: Long Hundred is 120 and was previously referred to as Hundred in Germanic languages
5VdyP TIL in many countries there's a mandatory requirement for companies to pay salaried employees a "thirteenth month" and even a "fourteenth month" - yearly bonus pays each equivalent to one month's normal salary
1aEaO TIL that the 1912 short "Saved from the Titanic" was made only 29 days after the sinking of the RMS Titanic and starred one of the survivors. It is now lost.
BGvb TIL that James Cromwell, the actor who played Farmer Hoggett in “Babe”, became an ethical vegan and vocal opponent of the unethical treatment of pigs because of the movie.
WBA9 TIL during the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, 25,000 pigeons were released during the opening ceremony. When a cannon was fired, the pigeons begun to poop on the spectators watching the ceremony below.