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Y7PlW TIL that Canada's Dempster Highway, the only public road to cross the Arctic Circle, once had a 109-mile stretch called Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road. Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road was purely made of ice and could only be operated, especially by large trucks, during the winter as the river below was frozen.
RJEQ TIL That Sir Patrick Stewart used to regularly fabricate fake news in the newspaper he worked for because he was spending his time practicing theatre with a theatre company during times that conflicted with his work schedule as a journalist.
Evvx TIL Englishman Frank Bickerton fought in both world wars, was drafted into 2 Antarctic expeditions, developed a golf course, was the hero of a novel, killed bears, wrote major motion pictures, treasure hunted in Costa Rica & married an earl’s granddaughter
neJdr TIL squirrels in North America once migrated in numbers of well over a billion at a time and it could several weeks for them to pass through a single town. Lewis & Clark even recorded such an event.
OoOR1 TIL the reason we don't dream about our smartphones is because dreams allow us to process our anxieties and fears. And with mobile phones being a more recent development, we don't see it in our dreams. Therefore our dreams are more about escaping a threatening situation than about smartphones.