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TIL of Sweden Hills, a village in Tobetsu town, Ishikari subprefecture of Hokkaido Japan. Local residents adopted Dalarna Sweden tradition of wooden houses painted in Falu Red, celebration of MidSummer Festival & 'Kraftskiva' crayfish party.

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grPVW TIL Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church
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nemJ7 TIL the generation who grew up watching black-and-white TV experienced predominantly colourless dreams, until the widespread of colour television in the 1960s.
vPXx8 TIL a study found that 4-month old babies that grow up to be introverts cry sooner than extroverts when a noisy rattle is shaken in front of them.
VKWp TIL: There is an Executive Order for “plain language” in the US government to make official documents accessible to the public.