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TIL the Amundsen-Scott station at the geographic South Pole has a basketball court, gym, music room, craft room, library, sauna, and two TV/movie lounges.

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PYQnE TIL Sogen Kato was thought to be the oldest man in Tokyo up until it was discovered he had died at the age of 79 in 1978. His family kept his death secret for his pension. This lead to a huge search for all persons over 100 years. Japan couldn't locate 234,354 supposed centenarians.
5VMWk TIL Ferdinand Verbiest created the first vehicle which moved under its own power in 1672 as an amusement for the Chinese Emperor Kangxi. The steam vehicle was 2 ft in length and built like a five-wheeled cart-like trolley
j66wv TIL that studies show alcoholism can be attributed to genetics
dDk8j TIL A town in Norway has a "seed bank" that stores over 1M seeds from all over the world in case of a nuclear event or any other global catastrophe
4kDjX TIL the most common threshold for megafauna is as low as 45kg/100lb