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TIL Iceland has Europe's largest banana plantation
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TIL the mechanism behind night vision isn’t the dilation of our pupils, it’s actually a pigment known as Rhodopsin. It gets destroyed by light and takes the eye 45 minutes to replenish.
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TIL That Christian Bale based his portrayal of Patrick Bateman on this interview of Tom Cruise on the Letterman Show because he “had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes.”
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TIL that Fermina Orduña was the first woman in Spain to register a patent in her own name
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TIL instead of Valentine's Day, Romanians celebrate "Dragobete" on February 24th. It's a celebration of spring and love, on the day when birds (supposedly) start nests.
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TIL the island of Faisans in the middle of the Bidasoa river, on the border of Spain and France, switches countries every six months. This was agreed to as part of the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659. This sort of joint sovereignty is called a condominium.