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TIL: About the most remote permanent settlement on earth: Edinburgh of The 7 Seas

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LkYwZ TIL that Niagara Falls gets turned down at night!
Brn8y TIL that Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga was the man who portrayed Carmine Lupertazzi Sr. in the HBO Series “The Sopranos.” He also acted as a driver and bodyguard for Dr. Don Shirley in the 1960s, which the basis for the 2018 Best Picture Winning Movie “Green Book.” He was portrayed by Viggo Mortensen.
D1Q6V TIL that one of the main engineers behind NASA's Challenger rocket, which exploded in 1986, revealed that after NASA would not heed his warnings against launching in the cold weather, he told his wife the night before the launch, "It's going to blow up."
dko7 TIL Portugal decriminalized all drugs back in 2001 and the number of addicts has been halved since then, and there were no negative effects on the country.
8aRJP TIL in 1951 Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz carried out an agrarian reform under which uncultivated portions of large land-holdings were expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. The US disliked this and the CIA engineered a coup d'etat