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TIL Midway Atoll is actually part of an underwater mountain range that stretches from Hawaii to Meiji Seamount, an underwater mountain near the coast of Russia.

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wNMM TIL teacher John Cisna lost 60lbs eating McDonalds 3x/day for 6mo. as part of a teaching lesson against the movie ‘Super Size Me’, stating “As a teacher I wouldnt show that movie because theres no value…a guy eats uncontrollable amounts, stops exercising, & the world is surprised he puts on weight?”
x6Po7 TIL of a condition called Chimerism (from the Greek mythology monster - Chimera) in which a person can have two types of DNA.
0XkM TIL that Mafia capo Gregory Scarpa was recruited by the FBI to find information on the murders of 3 civil rights activists by the KKK using extrajudicial methods. He attained the location of the bodies by pistol whipping a Klansman and putting a gun in his mouth.
R5WO7 TIL During the casting process for Armageddon (1998) Michael Bay was not impressed with Ben Affleck's screen test, calling him "a geek". Jerry Bruckheimer convinced Bay that Affleck would be a star, but he was required to lose weight, become tanned, and get his teeth capped before filming.
l7W8K TIL that Iceland's largest tree is a 75-year-old Sitka spruce, planted in 1949 in the forest of Kirkjubæjarklaustur. Measuring 80+ feet in 2013, the tree portrays the importance of forestry and reclaiming land for natural usage in the region's thin, volcanic soils, which are subject to erosion.