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TIL: The South Pole is much colder than the North Pole

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kvog TIL Canadian lottery winner Sharon Tirabassi blew through her $10 million winnings in less than 10 years and now lives paycheck to paycheck
5G6R TIL that the average house weighs as much as the amount of copper ore required to wire the average house: 40 tons.
4DDb TIL: Cows kill 22 times more people a year than sharks.
BroxK TIL In 1877 Frederick Douglass purchased close to ten acres of farmland and a mansion on the outskirts of the city of Washington in order to settle in the village of Anacostia. His final residence of Cedar Hill is seen as a metaphor for his life, signifying the heights that he rose to
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