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TIL the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted 12-year-old leukemia survivor Declan McLean-Pauley’s wish to blow a bunch of shit up

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57RB TIL: If you reach the most inaccessible point in Antarctica (82°06′S 54°58′E) there is a golden visitors’ book to sign.
lMRG TIL that the word “junkie” originates from the 1920’s when drug addicts stole scrap metal to fund their addiction.
pLeZ TIL The Sopranos was denied a permit to film in a New Jersey state park by a county commissioner who called the show a “disgrace to Italians” and was later removed under corruption charges
VAgD TIL in ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King’ (2003), they made a special effort to make sure that Sauron’s tower being destroyed did not resemble the World Trade Center attack.
4kAW6 TIL the white part of the pepper where the seeds are stuck to is called the placenta