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TIL That DisneyLand Was Going To Have An Attraction Based On The Alien Films.

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gMMpW A circumhorizontal arc often called a fire rainbow, is an optical phenomenon in which an ice halo forms by hexagonal, plate-shaped ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds. The halo is so large that the arc appears parallel to the horizon, hence the name. When the sun is very high in the sky, sunlight entering flat, hexagon-shaped ice crystals get split into individual colours just like in a prism.
PYo6g TIL Dark chocolate contains more iron per ounce than beef sirloin.
EBmx TIL that before a performance in Montreal, Ringo Starr received a telephoned death threat, and during the performance, he had his cymbals positioned vertically as an attempt to provide protection from would-be assassins.
vp4r TIL that the Danish woman Karen Jeppe freed 2000 women and children during the Armenian Genocide, and helped many others.
awKy9 TIL that the most loyal Golden Corral customers eat there 70 times per year