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TIL that Spain has its own territory in Africa (next to Morocco)

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VM4YZ TIL it took 20 hours to apply temporary tattoos to actor Rod Stegier for the movie ‘The Illustrated Man’
bjGj TIL a study in a Swiss population concluded: a Mediterranean diet, rich in extra virgin olive oil, with a Swiss twist of dairy products, lowers cancer and heart disease risk
l7lZK TIL Eurypterids, an order of arthropods completely wiped out by the world's biggest mass extinction, were scorpion-like giants that could reach almost ten feet in length.
xwAD TIL An amateur Canadian weatherman predicted, in his own words, an unpredictable earth quake 3 weeks before it hit New Zealand.
8PA8 TIL that the Tappan Zee Bridge, on which 140,000 people drive daily, is so structurally unsound that New York state aides refer to it as the “hold-your-breath bridge” while other experts call it the “scariest of scaries”