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TIL that Scotland has 421 words for "snow".

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M7PDW TIL Game of Thrones became the most pirated TV show in history, with the season 7 finale streamed or downloaded over 1 billion times. By season 8, illegal viewership doubled legal numbers with 55M downloads for the premiere. HBO eventually embraced the piracy buzz, calling it a “free-to-play” model.
jNXNN TIL That the director of The Shawshank Redemption bought the script from Stephen King for just $5,000 and could have sold it for $3 million after working on it for just 8 weeks to turn it into a movie script. Even though he was a first-time director, he refused and directed the movie himself.
nWWZB TIL that many food products readily sold for consumption in the US are illegal and banned in Europe because they contain dangerous substances, like arsenic and growth hormones, that cause cancer and birth defects.
GAekN TIL: That The Web of Life offers a critique on concepts like nature, wilderness, Gaia, and our everyday environments, challenging how we perceive the world around us.
gMrQD TIL that due to the way a rotting apple releases ethylene (which accelerates rotting), one bad apple really does ruin the whole bunch