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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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78G1Z TIL that the French-controlled Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean was named so to pay homage to the meeting of the fédérés of Marseilles and the Paris National Guards. The word réunion in French means meeting rather than reunion.
kOQ01 TIL Leonardo Di Caprio has an age limit of 25 for his girlfriends. Only three of all the women he's dated were 25 years old, but by the following year, he was on to the next girl.
QDld TIL Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation, 9 months before Rosa Parks, but was not used as a figurehead for the civil rights movement because she was an unmarried, pregnant teenager.
x6aXD TIL that on 15th August 1939, two weeks before the outbreak of Ww2, the luftwaffe lost 13 Ju-87 Stuka in a minute. The incident is know as "Nuehammer Stuka Disaster".
OogwX TIL John Lennon stubbed a cigarette out on a Henri Matisse painting while drunk at the Playboy Mansion, causing the painting to increase in value from its $15m price