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TIL that one of Google’s data centers is completely cooled by sea water from the Gulf of Finland.

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grKQA TIL of Robert Levinson, who disappeared on March 9 2007, whilst working as a private investigator in Iran. Levinson flew to Kish Island to meet Dawud Salahuddin, a US fugitive, as part of a "unauthorised CIA mission" before disappearing. In 2011,photos of Levinson alive were sent to his family.
8DZ8 TIL Bill Paxton can be seen in photos being held above the crowd as a boy on the day that John F Kennedy was assassinated.
6Mvm TIL that every attempt to permanently settle the island of North Rona off Scotland has ended with the entire population being wiped out.
ojwA TIL Maine prohibits drug testing of most employees and requires an employer to pay 50% for rehab if an employee is found using, after good cause to test is established and has to wait 90 days to retest. They may not fire someone for one failed drug test
awoN TIL Alice Cooper led the movement to restore the dilapitated Hollywood sign, in the 1970’s. He then fully paid for the third “O” himself, dedicating it to Groucho Marx.