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TIL Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to drive overland to the South Pole

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glv4 TIL a man was sent a letter offering him a credit card but he didn’t like the terms. So he altered the contract to include unlimited credit at 0% interest which the bank automatically accepted but then tried to void his card. He sued the bank for not sticking to terms of the credit contract and won.
OoMYR TIL that in 1995 an inmate tried to sue himself for $5 Million because he violated his own civil rights by getting arrested - then asked the state to pay because he has no income in jail
d8GQd TIL The city of Birmingham in England has a "Black Sabbath Bridge": A bridge named after the band, Black Sabbath.
W7159 TIL that the oldest undisputed depiction of a human (discovered so far) is the Venus of Hohle Fels from about 40,000 years ago. It is housed today in a museum in the small German town of Blaubeuren, close to where it was discovered.
Xj1Q TIL that Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of wartime Japan, was fitted with a new set of dentures by US medical staff after his failed suicide attempt in 1945. The phrase “Remember Pearl Harbor” had been secretly drilled into them in Morse code.