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TIL if you want to look for the Northern Lights online, the live feeds for Air Greenland will often have them streaming.

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OoZrY TIL Brazil could not afford to send its athletes to Los Angeles for the 1932 Summer Olympics. So they sent coffee bags with them which the athletes had to sell along the way to fund their own travel.
5VlaR TIL That the song 'Valerie' by Steve Winwood made the Billboard Top 100 twice...five years apart. First on Winwood's album 'Talking Back to the Night' and then a remixed version from his compilation album 'Chronicles'. It charted at 70 and 9 respecitvely.
ADJPn TIL of the Pelton Wheel, a more efficient water wheel, 1st used during the California Gold Rush. The wheel extracts energy from the impulse of moving water shooting into a split concave bucket, as opposed to water's dead weight like the traditional overshot water wheel.
K49J TIL that John Oliver has impacted legislation through his show “Last week tonight” so often that it is known as the John Oliver effect
WxKd TIL that land reclamation projects have increased the land area of Singapore by over 21%