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TIL that there are two species of flowering plants growing in Antarctica, even though 98% of the continent is covered by ice that averages 1.9 kilometres (1.2 miles) in thickness.

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Oyy1 TIL James Madison proposed creating the Senate to protect the very wealthy from the poor: “Landholders ought to have a share in the government […]. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body”
yBww TIL that the Harvard Law Review published a satirical article mocking a feminist legal scholar on the anniversary of her violent murder and distributed it its annual gala, to which her husband had been invited
D8D TIL The Pope Believes in Evolution
WLB8 TIL only one MythBusters result has been labeled as Busted/Plausible/Confirmed
d8lpr TIL that there is a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for the reconstruction of the old Penn Station, as it was from 1910-1963.