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TIL that “Kalsarikännit” or “päntsdrunk” is a Finnish word that means “drinking at home, alone, in your underwear.” In 2017, Finland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released two underwear-clad emojis to promote the cultural concept to foreigners.

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xXRg TIL that the US National Archives has banned the search term wikileaks.
rRe9d TIL that Danish Physicist Lene Hau lead a team in 2001 that was the first to completely stop a beam of light in its tracks. Later experiments included turning light into matter, and then matter back into light.
P1OMe Today I learned a pole with a orange sock is called a wind sock. It tells you the direction the wind is coming from
R75rw There is a spider that builds elaborate, fake spiders and hangs them in its web.
LQN4v TIL that Gangkhar Puensum (Bhutan) is the highest unclimbed mountain in the world. Budding mountaineers have been forbidden to climb it since 2003, and all attempts prior resulted in failure.