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TIL Antarctica has a full-time professional fire department, and maintains about 46 staff.

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LvZd TIL a 10 year old girl with cancer was too sick to see Up in theaters, so Pixar flew the DVD to her house. She died that day after watching it with her mother.
8aN6K TIL There is a Canadian TV anchor who translates all the English news into Inuktitut live on air. Igalaaq is the only Inuktitut supper hour TV program in the whole country where unilingual Inuktitut speakers have this one chance, for 30 minutes, to see someone speaking their language
78we7 TIL that Zima, the original "malternative" was made by filtering low-grade lager through charcoal (a process that strips away both color and taste), then adding citrusy flavor to make it palatable. The drink survived until 2008.
5YlkB TIL Mozart had a pet starling, which he bought after hearing him sing an excerpt from one of his pieces. After the starling died, Mozart wrote a humorous poem, which he read at its elaborate funeral.
j5mX TIL that mathematically there are more possible games of chess than there are atoms in the Observable Universe.