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TIL Nearly 3% of Antarctic ice in glaciers is penguin urine

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neyAY TIL that if you dug a tunnel through the center of Earth, and jumped in, and let gravity pull you through it will take you to reach the other side of the planet 42 minutes more or less
9YWPm TIL Sylvester Stallone's iconic facial features, especially around the mouth area, is due to the fact that he was born at the hands of an intern because they couldn't afford a real doctor. The intern accidentally paralyzed the motor nerves on the left side of his face, and took 4 years to recover.
neRrd TIL that William Hunter Dammond became the first African-American graduate of the University of Pittsburgh in 1893, but was not recognised as such until 2000.
9YPxB TIL The croissant is not really French. It was inspired by the Austrian kipfel that dates back to at least 1227.
GrG TIL a bald, blind, and deaf man was struck by lightning and all 3 conditions were fixed