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

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Gakg TIL that there is a town in Alaska where virtually all the residents live in the same building.
e0y0D TIL that scuttled WWI ships serve as a source of steel for high precision sensors
6EdJw TIL that the backup crew for Apollo 12 (who later crewed Apollo 15) played a joke on the main crew by inserting Playboy photos into their wrist mounted checklists worn on the surface of the moon. Nude photos went to the moon 14 years before the first US woman in space.
6E0km TIL by 2019 the Magic Kingdom theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida had been the world's most visited theme park for 13 consecutive years.
AEYx TIL that all patents on Lego have expired and anyone can make Lego clones; they just cannot use the word Lego since it is a Trademark. Lego have lost 2 court cases (EU & Canada) because of this.