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TIL the town of Qaanaaq in Greenland (population 646, as of 2020) was forcibly relocated 100 kilometers north of its former, traditional home, which was expropriated for the construction of a United States Air Force base in 1953. It’s one of the northernmost towns on earth.

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yVyxX TIL Chris Pratt is the son-in-law of Arnold Schwarzenegger
JwMv TIL that Muhammad Ali never turns down an autograph request because as a young boy, Cassius Clay asked his idol, boxer Sugar Ray Robinson for an autograph. Robinson rudely told the boy “I don’t got time.” Young Cassius never forgot how hurt he was by Robinson’s rejection.
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