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TIL No U.S. Hockey Olympic Men's team has won a gold medal without a player from Warroad, MN on the roster. A town of 1,700.

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PY1pw "Snow leopards are relics of the ice ages, adapted to extreme cold, to blizzards and vertical slopes, and are rarely seen below 6,000 feet. Their pelts are smoky white with ashy rosettes. Their eyes, sliced by vertical feline pupils, are the color of hoar frost. Half of their six-foot-long bodies consists of a magnificent tail: a thick, furry balancing rod for a cat that can leap 30 feet through the air."
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