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TIL a fascist Italy in 1935 ended slavery in Ethiopia.
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TIL The person who does the voice of Optimus Prime also does Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh
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TIL Amateur Canadian Scientists discovered a new type of Aurora in 2018 and named it Steve
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TIL Italian artist Piero Manzoni filled 90 tin cans with feces, called it 'Artist's shit' and sold them for up to €124,000 a tin. In August 2016, at an art auction in Milan, one of the tins sold for a new world record of €275,000, including auction fees.
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TIL comedian Rodney Dangerfield’s last words were a one-liner about how long he would be hospitalized for the heart-valve replacement surgery which ended with his death: “If all goes well, about a week. If not, about an hour and a half”
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TIL that the driest place on earth is McMurdo dry Valleys in Antarctica where it hasn't rained for 2 million years. Only anaerobic bacteria are able to survive in the extreme conditions. Scientists also consider the area terrestrially closest to Mars on earth.