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

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BryAy TIL there are two sizes of mattress bigger than the king: the Wyoming King and the Alaskan King
j4Rv TIL that when filming the movie Titanic they only built the port side of the ship. Scenes showing the starboard side were flipped in post production. As a result of this everything on the starboard side of the ship, from lettering to the buttons on costumes, had to be backwards during filming.
p8DXp TIL that Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, had sex for the first time on her mother's grave
Brbnk TIL That in the 19th Century the US Army experimented in using camels instead of horses to traverse the American South West
WmV4 TIL The Canadian Air Force had to raid a museum in order to get spare parts for their planes