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TIL Canada and the Danish Realm share an international land border on tiny barren island

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JY01l TIL cats cannot taste sugar.
xj6b TIL That on the final Mercury Flight, astronaut Gordo Cooper’s capsule lost all power. He had to manually bypass the control system to fire the retro rockets and drogue chute and use his wrist watch for time and stars for reference points. It was the most accurate landing to that point in history.
7rwQX TIL British Admiral Horatio Nelson, commander-in-chief of the British fleet in the Mediterranean in 1804, then the largest naval force in existence suffered from seasickness ever since he joined the navy at the age of 12.
ADjPo TIL Ariana Richards, the actress who played Lex in Jurassic Park, is now an accomplished painter and even painted a well-known self-portrait during the filming of Jurassic Park.
a8rnZ TIL For “no direction Home”. The iconic “Judas” moment And the onstage colour footage of “like a rolling stone”in Dylan’s 1966 Manchester concert, originally recorded by D. A. Pennebaker, was found in 2004 in a pile of water-damaged film recovered from Dylan’s vault.