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TIL that Nicaragua has English-speaking islands

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RdK8 TIL in 2011, James Franco put his name behind a project called “The Museum of Non-visible Art”. A woman paid $10,000 for a non-visible piece called “Fresh Air”.
8a0wP TIL The first email attachment ever sent was on March 11, 1992, by Nathaniel Borenstein, "the father of the file attachment". The creation of this technology (co-created by Ned Freed) was to fulfill Borenstein's desire to one day be able to receive pictures of future grandchildren via email.
WlE4 TIL that the cast of the 1979 science fiction horror film ‘Alien’ was never told about the chestburster scene in order to capture the authentic fear of the actors
epNlE TIL of Operation Yellow Ribbon - a plan implemented on 9/11 by Canadian Air Traffic Controllers to protect American targets by diverting potential threats to Canadian airspace.
1a80r TIL The Inventor of the frontal lobotomy won a Nobel Prize in medicine