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TIL about Naturhouse. A traditional Swedish log cabin encased in a green house

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p8P6p TIL The French government bombed and sunk a Greenpeace ship while it was harboured at Auckland, New Zealand. A photographer was killed, and two French agents were apprehended.
b9NLQ TIL about Nutraloaf, a meat loaf found in prisons that is so bland that a court ruled that serving it to misbehaving prisoners is a "cruel and unsual punishment"
yQpOe TIL about Jack Horner, a paleontologist, who along with his research partner discovered a new dinosaur genus which they named Maiasaura. He was the technical advisor for all of the Jurassic Park films and is now working on the DinoChicken project in hopes to create a dinosaur using chicken DNA.
4WlJ TIL An alchemist, testing if urine can be turned to gold, discovered that urine instead yields phosphorus. Which was worth more at that time.
b9Maj TIL that Stanley Kubrick was nominated as "Worst Director" for The Shining in the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards aka Razzies. The "award" ended up going to the director of Xanadu.