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

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lB05 TIL Dr. Donald Unger received an Ig Nobel Prize in 2009 for cracking only the fingers on his left hand for sixty years to see if the habit contributed to arthritis – it didn’t.
v1LKj TIL that Michael Jordan almost declined to join the famous 1992 Olympic "Dream Team". He had already won a gold medal before as an amateur in 1984, and has said that he regrets joining again in 1992 as it distracted from his offseason rest.
oxBR TIL that in 1917 Alexander Graham Bell predicted that “the unchecked burning of fossil fuels would have a sort of greenhouse effect” on the planet, and argued for the use of alternative energy sources such as solar energy.
Z89ZD TIL the pinching force of "29 coconut crabs collected from the northern part of Okinawa Island" in Japan "ranged from 29.4 to 1765.2 N." "During our field study," write the researchers, "obtaining data for analysis was challenging, as the large claws of this crab pinched us on multiple occasions."
b670a TIL that Bill Gate's first attempt at a software program was a version of Tic-Tac-Toe that allowed users to compete with a computer