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TIL that people in sotland have 421 words for snow!

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9YaQ7 TIL the Catholic Church promised to pay Residential School Survivors 25 million dollars and then hired a lawyer to get them out of it.
rRwOo TIL that croissants are not a French pastry but an Austrian one. They were originally created in Vienna to celebrated the Christian’s defeat of the Ottoman army in 1683.
6x0J TIL That Racing Club of Argentina had a curse put on their stadium by their fierce rivals by burying 7 dead cats under the pitch in 1967, and oddly enough they stopped winning. It took them 34 years to find all 7, after which they won the championship the same year the last cat was found.
veLr TIL letters sent to London Newspapers by Jack The Ripper had a sample of saliva from their stamps tested in 2006. The results seemed to point to the sender of the letters being a woman.
lo9Br TIL In Manhattan by the 1870s, horse manure added up to millions of pounds each day and over a 100,000 tons per year. Horse refuse and the remains of dead horses littered the streets.