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TIL of the Antarctic Treaty of 1961 which recognizes no sovereign claim of Antarctica, prohibits mining, prohibits military activity & only allows scientific activity on the continent

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K4PQ TIL that during the Panic of 1893, JP Morgan used $60 million in bonds to bail out the United States government.
xVxK5 TIL the official measure/definition of a second (time): The duration of 9,192,631,770 ‘oscillations’ of a Caesium 133 atom at rest and at absolute zero temperature
5R78 TIL that a Louisiana state representative once proposed age and weight limits for strippers
6EAAQ TIL 60 tonnes of ivory trade per year comes from mammoths frozen between 10,000 and 50,000 years ago.
9YEVQ TIL octopuses are anti-social towards other octopuses by nature, but when given MDMA they’re much more friendly and try to “hug” each other