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TIL that Antarctica used to be a rainforest

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4XO0X TIL Robert Frost wrote “The Road Not Taken” to tease his chronically indecisive friend, Edward Thomas, who misinterpreted the meaning and enlisted in the military shortly thereafter, only to be killed two years later in WWI
4kJla TIL seals (of which there are 34 extant species) have weasels, skunks, raccoons and red pandas as their closest loving relatives.
5YPnk TIL of Tyra Winters, a Highschool cheerleader who saved the life of a choking toddler during a homecoming parade. She was on a float and jumped down from it when she spotted the suffering boy in the crowd. She’d gotten CPR training in the 8th grade and used it to save his life.
PmVJ TIL that Manhattan Project mathematician Richard Hamming was asked to check arithmetic by a fellow researcher. Richard Hamming planned to give it to a subordinate until he realized it was a set of calculations to see if the nuclear detonation would ignite the entire Earth’s atmosphere.
5VVp8 Til new hampshire is the only U.S. state that doesnt require seatbelts