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TIL that Kaffeklubben Island, the northernmost piece of land in the world at 83°39′N latitude, has flowers growing on it

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epVAL TIL that Al Pacino boycotted the 45th academy awards in 1973, because despite having more screen time than Marlon Brando, he was nominated for best supporting actor and not best actor.
BQjd TIL that Ford created a concept car in 1958 called the Nucleon that would have been powered by a small nuclear reactor
AwEw TIL that strippers often perform at Taiwanese temples. Offerings to the gods aren’t limited to food and money, people figure that the gods like sexy women as much as the rest of us.
9BDG TIL that because Sublime frontman Bradley Nowell died of an overdose before the music video for “Santeria” was shot, the band used stock footage of him to appear in the video as a ghost/spirit.
wPEW TIL that doctors’ green scrubs help them see better in the operating room. Since green is on the opposite side of the colour spectrum it can refresh a doctor’s vision of red things. It also prevents distraction from ‘green ghosts’, an after effect illusion from focusing on red colours.