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TIL Google Street View’s north most point is a snowmobile ride through Svalbard, an island without any roads.

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K1LE TIL: Arnold Schwarzenegger was paid $15 million for Terminator 2 and it had a total of 700 words of dialogues which means he was paid $21,429 per word. “Hasta la vista, baby” cost $85,716.
Ego4x TIL some women born with a double uterus (Uterus didelphys) actually have two periods per month, and require two samples to be taken during smear tests, one from each cervix
69B6l TIL that the word with most meanings in the English language is the word "set." It has 430 senses listed in the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, published in 1989. The word commands the longest entry in the dictionary at 60,000 words, or 326,000 characters.
jLmX TIL Major Donnie Dunagan was the Marines’ youngest-ever drill instructor & served 3 tours in Vietnam, where he was wounded several times. He received the Bronze Star & the Purple Heart 3 times. For his entire Marine Corps service, he kept a secret that no one knew– he was the voice of Disney’s Bambi
0wBNA TIL that unlike chimpanzees, bonobo societies are relatively peaceful, with squabbles rarely escalating to serious violence. Female bonobos spend their time together in the center of the group, grooming, eating and socializing. Often, two females will embrace and rub their genitals together