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TIL that only 11 people have ever been born in Antarctica.

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mgrO TIL that research has shown that adult playfulness increases a person’s sexiness
b9KOa TIL that eating grapefruit (and a few of its close relatives) can increase the side effects of certain medications by disrupting a specialized group of proteins in your liver and small intestine called cytochrome P450 (CYPs).
RML6 TIL that the founder of Mitsubishi was an actual Samurai.
neeBo TIL In a study of nuns (so that living conditions, histories and environmental factors were “controlled” by their life choice), it was found that those who had demonstrated high optimism in early autobiographies lived on average 10 years longer than the more pessimistic ones.
rR9d1 TIL the word 'drone', in reference to remote controlled aircraft, was coined in 1935 when the pilotless DH.82 Queen Bee was developed and flown over RF for anti-aircraft gun training.