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TIL there is a section visible to those who climb Mount Everest titled “Rainbow Valley”, so named for the many colorful parkas of other (dead) climbers that dot the landscape. [Note: graphic PICS may be NSFW]

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WJ7X TIL Alexander Skarsgard’s (Eric from True Blood) first role in the US was Meekus, one of Zoolander’s roommates that died in a tragic gasoline fight accident
AVan TIL Ultimate sci-fi fan and literary agent Forest J Ackerman kept every story ever submitted to him. He once showed up at a Stephen King book signing with a manuscript King had written when he was 11.
M7DNB TIL that in 1748 Carl Linnaeus proposed the idea of a clock made of flowers. It would use plants that open or close their flowers at particular times of day to indicate the time. The accuracy would be limited because flowering times are affected by weather, seasons and latitude.
9k9M TIL There are islands off of the coast of Newfoundland that are the only remaining colonial territories of New France in the world
W7pbA TIL Many types of marine birds have a “salt gland” which functions similarly to a kidney and allows them to excrete salt from the fish and other ocean life they’ve eaten.