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TIL There are fossilized plants over 4500 feet beneath the ice sheet in Greenland

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W7x6o TIL the classic comedy “Airplane” was actually a joked up shot-for-shot remake of an earlier drama called “Zero Hour”
E1VvX TIL Marina Abramović performed The Artist Is Present, a 736-hour and 30-minute static, silent piece, in which she sat immobile in the museum's atrium across from 1,545 sitters, including Klaus Biesenbach, James Franco, Lou Reed, Alan Rickman, Jemima Kirke, Jennifer Carpenter and Björk
nnx9 TIL that those plane trails in the sky are caused by condensation, and there’s a conspiracy theory that believes they are chemicals sprayed by the government.
1Mj7 TIL microwaves can’t actually melt ice (explaining why defrosting is so slow)
4ogR TIL that in 2006, Florida passed Amendment 3 which states that any proposed amendment to or revision of the State Constitution requires at least 60% of votes. It passed with 57%.