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TIL that every winter at a research station in the South Pole, 50 people are left totally isolated for 8 months. An annual tradition for the personnel is the back to back watching of the 3 “The Thing” films after the last plane has left for the winter

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awZVy TIL that Abolqasem Ferdowsi wrote the Shahnameh, a Persian Epic Poem of 50,000 rhymed couplets - more than twice the length of the Iliad and Odyssey combined! It is considered the world’s longest poem written by a single poet, and is regarded as one of the supreme achievements in world literature.
xx97 TIL 500,000 baseball bats were sold in Russia last year. Only one pair of batting gloves were purchased.
jNQBX TIL that the Fox ‘Animation Domination’ block was dropped and brought back recently with 2 new shows and 3 upcoming ones (I thought it was continuous for the past 15 years)
n8O9 TIL Mohammed himself made a charter that ordered Muslims to protect Christians until the end of the world.
60XJ TIL that in order to keep the project a secret, the British army used the innocuous name “mobile water carriers” for a motorized weapons project - which is the reason we call them “tanks”.