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TIL What Really Happens When You Dream?&Why Do We Dream?

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XEmrP TIL the costumes for the 2019 version of "Aladdin" were redesigned to show no skin. The classic outfit of Jasmine having her belly button shown was deemed "inappropriate these days for families," and was removed.
pY0o8 TIL about "Project Iceworm", a top-secret 1958 $2.7 billion U.S. plan to convert part of the Arctic into a launchpad for nuclear missiles, including a nuclear reactor. Due to shifting Greenland ice sheets, the plan was scrapped in 1967, & the massive underground structure thereafter collapsed
y1LM TIL one of the adversities that the Napoleonic army faced in Russia was the fact that the buttons of their uniforms may have turned to dust. Tin was the major metal used to make buttons and the bonding structure of tin atoms begins to change when temperatures drop below 13°C
OGbdX TIL Connecticut has an official State Troubadour who "functions as an ambassador of music and song and promotes cultural literacy among Connecticut citizens"
D1RXJ TIL there is a German island in the North Sea (Föhr) whose residents love the Manhattan cocktail - a relic of mass emigration to America in the late 1800s/early 1900s of island residents.