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TIL The word for “the day after tomorrow” is “overmorrow”

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Br9xe TIL In 1988 Nancy Knight, a scientist at the National Center for Atmosphere Research in Boulder, Colorado, USA, found two identical snowflakes.
8eA9K TIL Ethiopia acquired 3 Electric Chairs for capital punishment, but did not have enough reliable electricity to use them in practice. 2 of the chairs were converted to become garden furniture, the remaining was used by their Emperor as a throne.
vP4Lx TIL that The Sound of Music’s original theatrical release lasted for 4 and a half years.
e0jx6 TIL that, in violation of its own non-segregation policy, the U.S. military secretly complied until the 1980s with Iceland's request that black American soldiers not be stationed in Iceland
1VZ7 TIL that a Chinese rickshaw puller donated 350,000 yuan to enable more than 300 poor students continue with their studies, by the time he passed away at the age of 93 years.