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TIL that Adrien Brody is banned from performing on SNL due to giving an improvised introduction the first (and only) time he appeared on the show.

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Oo5PL TIL that Tuvalu gets 10% of its GDP from leasing its .tv Top Level Domain. This allowed it to able to enter the UN because it could finally afford the $100,000 entrance fee.
XY1X TIL: Farmed salmon is naturally gray in color. It ends up pink due to food additives canthaxanthin and/or astaxanthin.
bR7E TIL Milunka Savić was recognised as the most-decorated female combatant in the entire history of warfare.
LkDYr TIL that in the American Civil War, most battles had two names. The North generally named battles after natural features while the South named based on man-made landmarks/towns near battle. The Northern defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run was a Southern victory at the First Battle of Manassas.
yv1p TIL Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants- such as fruit trees, vegetable plants, herbs, etc- which will be free to everyone. If successful, it will be the first “Urban Food Forest” of the nation.