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TIL that the highest temperatures ever recorded in Alaska and Hawaii are both 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

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ADV8w TIL that the brushwork on Mona Lisa is so intricate that it literally requires x-rays to view the brush strokes. Apparently, Vinci used a well-known renaissance painting technique called 'sfumato', in which he added 30 layers of paint that still came out to be only 40 micrometers.
JYddm TIL that "I Want to Break Free", a song by the British rock band Queen, known for its music video for which all the band members dressed in women's clothes which parodied the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street, was considered controversial in the United States and banned by MTV.
d80Zj TIL that loofah (the kind used for scrubbing in the shower) is actually an edible vegetable.
5VenD TIL Inflatable tanks were used during WWII as decoys.
Evl0 TIL on New Year’s Eve, 1999, Brad Pitt rented a Mexican resort, filled it with his friends and at midnight had the government cut the power and phone lines and send in troops to raid the compound and “arrest” one of his best friends on drug charges - all as a practical joke!