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TIL In 2013 It snowed in Egypt

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neLDG TIL that in South Korea, in addition to the international age system, a traditional system known as "Korean age" is still widely used. In Korean age, people's age starts at 1 rather than 0 and gains one year at every New Year's Day.
km4 TIL Iceland was officially treated by UK as a terrorist country in 2008.
grmW8 TIL there are more than 72,100 Americans still missing from World War II.
Mevd8 TIL that the most expensive party in recorded history was hosted by the then Shah of Iran to celebrate the 2500th year anniversary of the Persian Empire. The party invited the world leaders of 65 nations. In today’s money the party would’ve cost around $650,000,000
jN0Wa TIL the world's first electric synthesizer (1897) was a 200 ton beast that used 4 steam generators to provide the 671 kilowatts of power it needed, and its signal was piped down phone wires to subscribers at homes and businesses