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TIL for US Residents there are Special Passport Acceptance Fairs for First Time Applicants

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QJYjX TIL: Antarctica was discovered only 201 years ago! 200 years ago, people discovered Antarctica – and promptly began profiting by slaughtering some of its animals to near extinction
16Kb7 TIL one of the possible inspirations for the Sheriff of Nottingham from "Robin Hood" fame is a man called Philip Marc, who was so hated that a clause in the Magna Carta was specifically written remove him from his position.
EgR4P TIL an Erector set was used to build the precursor to the modern artificial heart
wLYwY TIL that a study of Toxoplasma gondii, which is estimated to be infecting around 1,000 people every day in Britain, has found that it makes chimpanzees more attracted to the smell of leopards, their main predators in the wild.
78GRP TIL the Roman Emperor Fedrick II (1220-1250) kept a Sulphur Crested Cockatoo, a parrot native to Australia and New Guinea.