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TIL Men in India receive a free gun licence if they get a vasectomy

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a88XZ TIL that Volcán Cayambe in Ecuador is the only place on Earth where the equator intersects snow-cover
vPVXD TIL that in 2017 all GPS coordinates in Australia were shifted 1.8 m to account for continental drift since the last update in 1994. Moving north 7 cm a year, the Australian plate is one of the fastest-drifting plates in the world
pEQO TIL that during the filming of a flood scene for Noah’s Ark (1928) 3 extras were killed and that one of the surviving extras was John Wayne
OoJn4 TIL of the Devils Hole Pupfish, the entire species exists within a 22 by 3.5 meter pool in Death Valley. In 2007 as few as 38 individuals remained. As of spring 2019, the population had reached 136.
mk9x TIL The first persons to drive a motor vehicle to the North Pole were James May and Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear