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TIL of an annual celebration in a town in Colorado called Frozen Dead Guy Days. It loosely celebrates the frozen body of a deceased Norwegian grandfather

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9Xg6 TIL There is a poem called “The Lost Generation” by Jonathan Reed that when read one way speaks negatively about a generation and when read backwards has the exact opposite effect.
94lr TIL The Air Force built a supercomputer comprised of 1,700 PS3s linked together which ranked at 35-36th most powerful computer in the world
WAGo TIL of Verkhoyanks, a town in Russia where the average temperature is -45C/-49F. In the middle of a 7 month winter the 1300 residents were attacked by a pack of 400 wolves.
LDL9 TIL common vaccines used on “hundreds of millions of people” were developed from lung tissue cells of a three month old, female human fetus aborted in Sweden in 1962, and it’s not clear if the mother gave her permission
XE5JP TIL that Nearly Half Of Deployed US Soldiers Drink 1 Energy Drink Per Day