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TIL that Scotland has 421 words for "snow".

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9wLxm TIL Justin Timberlake said of *NSYNC bandmate JC Chasez, "In my opinion, (JC) had the best voice out of all of us...Out of all the boy bands, call 'em what you will, he was the one that could out-sing all of us."
ygbJ TIL It takes three years of higher education to become a police officer in Norway. The training takes place at a university college and each graduate gets a bachelor’s degree in “Police Studies”.
70mP TIL a 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.
X01X8 TIL that the day of the year with the least number of births is Christmas Day. The day of the year with the most number of births is September 26th, because December 25th is also the day with the most conceptions.
LkGMm TIL that a Qing Princess by the name of Yoshiko Kawashima was raised in Japan and served as a spy for the Japanese Kwantung Army and puppet state of Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War.