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TIL 11 children have been born in Antarctica, the first in 1978.

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d8NrQ TIL that the “actor” in Hook that is put into the Boo Box is none other than Academy Award Actress Glenn Close. She can definitely rock a beard, and those screams terrified me as a kid.
QJyrE TIL of the Cannonball Run, an unsanctioned coast to coast race held by Car and Driver magazine in the 1970s protesting speed limits. Cars would average 100 MPH, barreling across America in as little as two days.
AJDx TIL: In the late 19th century the feminist movements in both Europe and America were decidedly anti-condom. Feminists wanted birth control to be exclusively in the hands of women, and disapproved of male-controlled methods such as the condom.
M7x8W TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brother both had the nickname “Ike”. Dwight was “Little Ike” and his older brother Edgar was “Big Ike”
erPg TIL that Nikola Tesla predicted in 1926 that one day “We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance… we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face” through devices able to fit into a vest pocket.