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TIL Antarctica is actually just a cluster of islands under the ice

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81Yb TIL the guy responsible for many of the sex act images on Wikipedia is gloriously named SeedFeeder and drew inspiration from airline safety guides.
l7n9V TIL at the end of the Top Gear US Special after arriving in New Orleans, the hosts gave their cars away instead of selling them as originally planned after seeing the damage from Hurricane Katrina
D1W8P TIL the Indian musicians who played on Sgt Pepper each received £20 per session. The album had sold 32 million copies.
VMrbm TIL about a village in India, in which people decided to live without street lights for over a month, not wanting to disturb the nest a Robin had built in the switch board. They will turn on the lights, once the birds leave the nest.
e0emD TIL Blu-ray Discs use blue lasers to read and write to the disc as opposed to the traditional red, which allows for substantially more data to be stored due the the blue light's shorter wavelength