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TIL Earth is the only planet we know of that has techtonic plates.

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698 TIL that in the 1960s a Russian doctor had to remove his own appendix after it burst because he was the only doctor stationed in a remote antarctic facility with no option for evacuation. He lived to tell the tale.
kEj4 TIL Atari didn’t allow designers to receive credit on their games, and so Warren Robinett placed a secret object in the game which allowed the players to see a hidden screen displaying “Created by Warren Robinett”, one of the earliest Easter eggs to be created
0D8M TIL that in 2009, before specific whistleblower protection laws, two nurses in TX were fired and charged with unrelated felonies after reporting unsafe medical care from a physician they worked under
VEbG TIL that John Cleese has called Eddie Izzard ‘the lost Python’
9rE6 TIL: In 2013, 20% of all homicides in Seattle were committed by police.