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TIL that cave systems were recently discovered beneath Antarctica which are warm enough to wear t-shirts in, and in which it is said a “lost world” of new animals and plants may exist

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BrGgk TIL - "The Holodomor" Was A Man-Made Famine Created By Stalin That Killed Up To 7.5 Million Of His Own People. Soviet Authorities Banned Discussion Of The Disaster And Ordered Historians To Falsify Their Accounts Of It To Uphold Stalin's Legacy
ZeYa TIL that according to scientists, all of the mosquitoes in the world could probably be killed off with minimal permanent ecological damage.
d8wyZ TIL That Charles Barkley once had ice thrown on him at a club by another patron. Barkley responded by throwing the patron out a window. When the judge asked Barkley if he had any regrets, Barkley replied, “Yeah I regret we were on the first floor.”
yVGa TIL Shigeru Miyamoto (creator of Mario, Zelda, Star Fox etc) doesn’t like Donkey Kong Country, claiming it “proves that gamers will be willing to play a mediocre game if it has good graphics”.
oBKbY TIL the New York Yankees baseball team began as the Baltimore Orioles in 1901, before moving to New York in 1903 where the team was re-named the New York Highlanders. The team was not re-named the Yankees until a decade later in 1913.