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TIL there are no mosquitoes in Iceland

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kdkB TIL- Green Beanery, an organic coffee shop in Toronto, says all their proficts go to their owner –Energy Probe Research Foundation–which they call a “federally registered environmental charity”. In reality, it is a lobbyist group for fossil fuel companies, owned by Lawrence Solomon
9wBx7 TIL that most of the Woody voices in Toy Story merchandise and video games weren’t done by Tom Hanks, but by his brother Jim Hanks.
X0eRD TIL The idiom 'with flying colors' originated with the practice of victorious ships flying flags, or 'colors' from their masthead to announce their victory as they sailed back into port.
ADEJa TIL Freddie Mercury did a song with opera singer Montserrat Caballe called "Barcelona" for the 1992 Summer Olympics
x6X7g TIL of 'Denny', the only known individual whose parents were two different species of human. She lived ninety thousand years ago in central Asia, where a fragment of her bone was found in 2012. Her mother was a Neanderthal and her father was a Denisovan.