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TIL the best place to see rainbow is Hawaii

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jA6N TIL That Christopher Columbus punished a man found guilty of stealing corn by having his ears and nose cut off and then selling him into slavery
R5JQ TIL that Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout was held captive by Somali insurgents for 460 days, suffering terrible abuse and malnutrition. Upon her release, she created a charity to help Somalians and returned to deliver food during the drought in 2011.
8ZMZ TIL there is a village named Paris in Russia, in 2005 there was constructed a 1:5 replica of the Eiffel Tower.
JeJ8 TIL that the crew compartment of the Challenger space shuttle disaster survived the mid-air explosion, and ascended another 17,000ft on its own momentum before free-falling into the ocean. The impact with the water is what is believed to have killed the crew.
mxVDO TIL that in 1993, the entire city of San Francisco voted about whether a police officer was allowed to carrying a ventriloquist’s dummy called Brendan O’Smarty while on patrol. He was.