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TIL Disneyland employees planted an entire forest shaped like Mickey Mouse’s head

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8eaLP TIL that the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC, UK) conducted an online naming poll for a polar research vessel. The name "Boaty McBoatface " was the runaway winner of the poll with 124,109 votes.
WglN TIL: There is a ‘Wood Floor of the Year’ award presented by the National Wood Flooring Association at the National Wood Flooring Association Wood Floor Expo.
awmVA TIL that Cambodia is the only country in the world to have a real building on its flag. Angkor Wat, a Hindu-Budist temple, has become a symbol of Cambodia, which appears on its national flag, and it is the country's prime attraction for visitors.
9YDxm TIL there is a church in Taiwan in the shape of a giant glass slipper.
p8prZ TIL the famous Rokeby Venus painting was attacked by a suffragette with a meat cleaver in 1914. She stated that she wanted to destroy the most beautiful woman in mythological history, in protest against the government for destroying Emmeline Pankhurst, the most beautiful woman in modern history.