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TIL that people in sotland have 421 words for snow!

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ANor7 TIL Foie Gras is produced by forcefully overfeeding ducks increasingly larger amounts, via tube and funnel attached to their esophagus, until their liver becomes enlarge 6-10 times its original size.
kJWAd TIL the folk legend adapted into a play ‘Doctor Faustus’ was loosely based on a real alchemist/magician Johann Georg Faust
mxyko TIL the Borussia Dortmund football bombing was committed by a 28 year old short seller trying to manipulate the market
LkOEr TIL Star Wars composer John William's son is the lead singer for the rock group Toto
neX5Y TIL of Märket, a tiny island divided by the finnish-swedish border. When the finns inadvertedly built a lighthouse on the wrong side of the border, the swedes agreed to trade it for an equal spot of land on the other side, causing the border to zig-zag.