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TIL that the first semi-permanent population to live in Antarctica was American and British sealers who lived on the South Georgia Islands semi-annually starting in 1786.

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og7r TIL Lyudmila Pavlyuchenko is regarded as the most successful female sniper in history, credited with 309 kills during WWII
MRkA TIL squirrels forget where about 50% of the nuts they have hidden are
PYEOJ TIL the USA performed numerous unethical human experimentation on its citizens: Exposure to chemical/biological weapons; infecting people with deadly/debilitating diseases; human radiation; injecting people toxic/radioactive chemicals; surgical, interrogation, torture and mind-control experiments.
lb8N TIL that we sent people to the moon before we put wheels on suitcases
x6bV5 TIL the kid characters in Nickelodeon's "Hey Arnold!" (1996) were all voiced by real kids.