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TIL that death valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, occasionally has a ‘Super-bloom’ of wildflowers when conditions are just right

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78PZr TIL that the expression "bête noire" is an allusion to the french Beast of Gévaudan
pBWp TIL That the Professor from Gilligan’s Island was the first husband of Carol Brady from The Brady Bunch, and that Gilligan’s last name was “Whitehead”.
6O8J TIL Norwegians pay half tax in November, so everyone has more money for Christmas.
R5Kr7 TIL: That Denis Thatcher and his first wife, Margot Kempson, never actually lived together. After his demobilisation in 1946, Kempson told him she wanted a divorce having met someone else. Thatcher was so traumatised by the event that he refused to ever talk about the marriage or the separation.
XEEDr TIL 60,000 enlisted men were exposed to Mustard Gas by the US gov't in WWII to test for differences between race.