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TIL that Antartica has a native insect species the Antarctic Midge, Belgica Antarctica. The species has been for around 30 million years and has adapted to surviving the cold, it is the technically the largest land animal on the contient and has the tiniest genome of any insect.

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JYnP4 TIL that rock band Iron Maiden went to a restaurant after a 1984 concert in Poland. The Maidens saw a wedding inside; after a chat, they took the wedding band's instruments and began playing for the night. Guests had no idea until the groom saw that his wedding band transformed into Iron Maiden.
loBKA TIL: In Egypt 1503 BC, Hatshepsut became the second woman to rule and chose to take the title of king. She donned male clothing and wore a false beard.
8ePLK TIL that the schizophrenic serial killer Richard Chase, AKA The Vampire of Sacramento, drank the blood of his victims because he found out in health class that erections are caused by blood flow and he thought it would cure his impotence to have more blood.
4Xbdg TIL Of An Intense Battle Between A Crocodile and An Olive Python. The 10-ft snake, coiled itself around the crocodile and the two struggled in the water. The snake later brought the dead crocodile onto land and ate it.
dn78 TIL a US cargo plane crashed while moving children from Vietnam. American businessman Robert Macauley heard that it would take over a week to evacuate the survivors, so he chartered a Boeing 747 and arranged for 300 orphaned children to leave the country, paying for the trip by mortgaging his house.