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TIL the US built a secret nuclear launch facility in Greenland which was kept a secret even from Denmark. When the ice sheet melts, close to 200000 liters of chemical waste will be released in the environment.

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wLarY TIL - A small group of German soldiers were forgotten on a remote British island, and only surrendered three weeks after the war had ended
a6Lb TIL a FarmVille player stole from a blind man and murdered another person due to his desperation for FarmVille cash
7rlRZ TIL Teri Horton, the woman who purchased a painting by Jackson Pollock worth $50 million in a thrift store for five dollars.
LnKp TIL about a protest in a village in Turkey. The women were fed up with walking to get water, so they withheld sex from their husbands until they fixed the water line. They got what they wanted in one month.
5w7R TIL - The name of Yoda’s race & home world are never mentioned in any film, book, or media. He is officially said to be of a “species unknown”.