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TIL Antarctica was discovered so recently, that the first person to set foot on it was an American citizen.

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yQ1Ja TIL about the "Well to Hell" hoax. The hoax suggested a wealthy Russian man drilled a hole many miles deep into the Earth eventually finding a cavern, and with heat resistant equipment, recorded the screams of the damned. The hoax travelled the globe.
Brmnr TIL in 1987 Iraq attacked the United States ship USS Stark and killed 37 sailors
4pBo TIL there is a theory that our universe has collided with other universes in the past and we can view the scars by studying the night sky
5YQAB TIL dinosaurs in the stegosaurus suborder have a cluster of spikes on their tails informally referred to by paleontologists as "Thagomizer", stemming from a 1982 joke in Gary Larson's The Far Side
EGB0 TIL that Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria, who ruled from 1943 to 1946 as a child, and was overthrown after the WWII, was later elected Prime Minister of Bulgaria in 2001. He is the only monarch to become the head of government through democratic elections in European history.