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TIL that the “service fee” on your phone bill is used by the FCC to provide communication to low income households, rural health clinics, and libraries.

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yQVQa TIL that nomadic families owning less than 100 animals in Mongolia are considered to live in poverty
ajpL TIL there has never been snakes in Ireland because being cold-blooded, snake couldn’t survive the frozen ground during the ice age in the past.
4X7xo TIL in Brazil, prison sentence is reduced by 4 days for every book read.
AD1Ag TIL Berliners love the "currywurst", a sausage topped with curry ketchup, so much, that there have been commemorative coins, novels, plays and movies honoring its invention. By tradition, every candidate for mayor must be photographed in front of a currywurst stand.
4X4Qw TIL that the Icelandic language has a term, "gludda vedur" (glue-ca ver-tish), which describes weather that's nice to look at, but not nice to be out in. It loosely translates to 'window weather'.