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TIL Antarctica is governed by a treaty of over 50 countries banning all mining, pollution, colonization, or claims from any one country. Only scientific exploration is permitted and visitors must take every trace of themselves with them when they leave.

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NXMgQ TIL that in November 1954, a woman in Alabama survived being struck by a meteorite that hit the roof of her house, bounced off a radio and hit her in upper thigh and hand. She was left with a large bruise on her side but was otherwise not seriously injured.
kOblB TIL that when yakuza boss Tadamasa Goto wanted to have a liver transplant performed in USA in 2001, he donated 100 thousand dollars to the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. The gangster jumped the queue and got the liver; that year, 186 people in the Los Angeles region died waiting for livers.
v8ej TIL Iconic rappers Busta Rhymes, Jay Z, Biggie Smalls, and DMX all went to the same high school at the same time.
1ed7 TIL that a man who was burned by the burning mat at Burning Man tried to sue the event’s organizers, claiming that they should have prevented him from walking into the fire.
JYaD4 TIL in 1997 an experiment to build a castle, using only medieval tools began, and twenty one years later they're more than half way finished.