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TIL that the up to 6mm long flightless Antarctic Midge is the largest terrestrial animal native to Antarctica

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10D7 TIL Connect Four is a solved game. The first player can always win by playing the right moves.
b9gkj TIL that it took nearly 2 hours to execute convicted murderer Joseph Wood. An hour after being injected with midazolam & hydromorphone (15 times the lethal dose), the prisoner was still alive. Lawyers filed an emergency appeal to halt the execution. Ten minutes after he died, the appeal was denied.
lGM5 TIL In Cuba, picking up hitchhikers is mandatory for government vehicles, if passenger space is available.
O1dR TIL of the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird, who was recorded singing a mating call to a female that would never come. It died in 1987.
9lYM TIL Clint Eastwood was cast as Two-Face in the 1960s TV Show, but it was canceled before he could appear.