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TIL Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes of TLC burned her NFL ex-boyfriends house down

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rN7Nw TIL that the record for longest non stop run belongs to Dean Karnazes, who ran 350 miles (560 km), it took him 80 hours and 44 minutes
M7ZJm TIL Edvard Grieg’s “Morning Mood” wasn’t written to paint a Norwegian sunrise. The music actually accompanies a scene in Ibsen’s Peer Gynt where Peer wakes up stranded in the Moroccan desert (surrounded by acacias and palm trees) — not a Scandinavian fjord.
69Nn8 TIL 55 million years ago, the North Pole was a lot like Miami today. There were palm trees and alligators, and the temperature was around 74° F.
YQ1A TIL There is a Village in Japan named Fox Village and it is Full of Foxes that run around and play together.
R7d7l TIL of John Howard Griffin - a white journalist who darkened his skin and travelled the deep south in 1959 in order to experience life in those states as a black man