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TIL I learned about a place in Norway called Hell

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DmvP TIL that at midnight on Dec 30th, 1899, a ship positioned itself at the intersection of the date line and equator, such that the bow and stern occupied different seasons, hemispheres, days, years, and centuries. For the ship, Dec 31st never occurred.
9Qe7 TIL that ants ‘farm’ mealybugs. In return for honeydew, the bugs are given shelter in the form of ‘barns’ constructed by the ant ‘farmers’ from bits of soil. Ants will defend their ‘herds’ from predators. Ants ‘milk’ them by stroking the bug’s abdomen, it responds by exuding honeydew.
50a9 TIL there’s an official term for Grammar Nazi’s: Prescriptivists.
w4b1 TIL of the marriage market in Shanghai, China. Every weekend parents come to the market to exchange information about their unmarried adult children and arrange blind dates.
PoYE TIL “The Great Smog” of London, UK was a severe air pollution event that lasted 5 days and killed an estimated 12,000 people in December of 1952.