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TIL that for the price of two stamps, you can send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to the Amundsen-Scott research station at the South Pole, and they will postmark it and send it back to you.

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awRDA TIL while today the habitat of grizzly bears is primarily limited to Alaska and parts of Canada, there was a population of grizzlies in Mexico before they went extinct in 1964.
W7pr9 TIL about Josiah Harlan, an American traveler who raised an army in Afghanistan 1830s with the intent of becoming a king. He led his followers on various campaigns against slaveholding princes and after returning to the US attempted to be appointed a general in the Civil War against the Confederacy.
x6vv7 TIL: Fire ants aren't native to North America and were accidentally imported in the 1930's.
16ZPP TIL that before the first Harry Potter film was released in the early 2000s, Warner Bros. demanded the owners of Harry Potter fansites, including a 15 year old, to hand over their domain names due to copyright protection. This caused negative publicity, which resulted to the studio backing down.
Z8knp TIL three of the plane models used by North Korean airline Air Koryo are so old that Air Koryo is the last passenger airline in the world to still be using them today.