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TIL That Antarctica Is Actually A Desert

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ZpoVo Today I learned that Southampton, UK was where both the Titanic and Mayflower departed from
j6PRn TIL Vitamin B12 is very sensitive to acid and would be destroyed by the acid in the stomach, so saliva contains an substance named haptocorrin that has the only purpose to bind to the vitamin to protect it while it passes through the stomach until it can be absorbed in the intestine.
M7wL7 TIL that during WWII, a German fighter pilot named Franz Stigler refused to shoot down a badly damaged American bomber, instead escorting it to safety. He and the American pilot, Charlie Brown, became friends decades later.
KREG TIL The South African health ministry once stapled a leaflet to condoms they distributed
d8AGQ Rich people are buying up dinosaurs because museums are too poor to get them.