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TIL It's been 40 years since a person has been born in Antarctica.

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7y8L TIL of a Chinese traffic jam that lasted 10 days, with some individual drivers taking up to 5 days to get out. This took so long that a small micro economy developed on the highway
ZpjQQ TIL test screenings for “Edward Scissorhands” were so encouraging, the President of 20th Century Fox considered marketing the film on the scale of "an E.T.-sized blockbuster," but conceded, “We have to let it find its place. We want to be careful not to hype the movie out of the universe.”
J1rBV TIL from 688 to 965 AD Cyprus was ruled jointly by both the Arab Caliphate and the Byzantines as a condominium with the collected taxes were divided among the Arabs and the emperor after emperor Justinian II and the caliph Abd al-Malik reached an unprecedented agreement.
nW5G7 TIL that in 2018, Surabaya, Indonesia, allowed residents to pay for bus rides with plastic waste instead of cash. This initiative aims to cut down plastic trash and boost public transport use, helping reduce road congestion. Plastic waste can cover a two-hour bus trip.
9YrAQ TIL China consumes nearly 75% of the worlds pickles