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TIL that most of the ski slope maps in North America were painted by one man, James Niehues

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xV9vD TIL that despite being only 100 miles from each other, Somoa and American Somoa will enter the new decade 25 hours apart. Residents can take a 30 minute flight back into 2019 and celebrate the New Year again more than a day later.
8yeX TIL of Project COLDFEET, a 1962 operation where two CIA operatives were airdropped onto an abandoned Soviet research station on an ice floe, retrieved information on advanced submarine detection systems, and were extracted via the Fulton Skyhook recovery system to a modified B-17.
oBAYE TIL about Leo Major, a Canadian Soldier that liberated the Dutch town of Zwole from the Nazis all by himself.
wLn61 TIL that despite the Seven Years' War between Britain and France, France instructed its ships not to interfere with the Endeavour's expedition to Tahiti to observe the 1769 Transit of Venus as, it was ‘out on enterprises of service to all mankind'.
0wBR TIL that “Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg is color-blind”