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TIL that Leonard Nimoy directed “Three Men And A Baby”

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699pw TIL that the northernmost point of land on earth is a small island off the coast of Greenland, 83-42, named after its latitude of 83 degrees 42 minutes north, but its official recognition is still pending due to its very small size.
MeJ98 TIL Belgium closed its last coal power station in 2016...
NXr5Q TIL there are only 25 blimps left in the world.
97Mp TIL that a U.S. court once debated whether the X-Men are human or not, because “dolls”- which represent human beings - are tariffed at twice the rate of “toys” - which represent something other than human (monsters, robots, etc.). The court decided that X-men are not human.
OnJ1 TIL of the only lynching in Canada’s history, when, in 1884, an American mob crossed the border in order to hang a Native American teenager wrongly accused of murder.