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TIL babies in Nordic countries take naps outside even in freezing weather

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8e8Qa TIL that only 12 people ever saw the full version of a movie considered one of the greatest of all time, "Greed"
e08wJ TIL For over five hundred years the Russians wondered what kind of people their Arctic and sub-Arctic subjects were. "They have mouths between their shoulders and eyes in their chests," reported a fifteenth-century tale
X04p6 TIL After Japan’s defeat in WW2 the US made Okinawa switch to driving on right side, they switched back to left side driving when returned to Japanese control in 1978
BKAW TIL that a man called Zeb Quinn went missing in 2000. His car was found two weeks later, with it’s lights on, a pair of lipstick lips drawn on the rear windshield, and a live Labrador puppy inside. Zeb Quinn has never been found.
rLVw TIL that the “Red Zone” in France, where some of the most intense combat from WW1 took place, is utterly uninhabitable. Countless undetonated chemical weapons and explosives riddle the earth which, along with the tons of human remains, have rendered the soil and water highly toxic.