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N7YZe TIL The Microsoft Zune could send songs to nearby Zunes similar to AirDrop via a feature called "squirting"
xVpZk TIL Greenland has four distinct Time Zones that cross its boundaries but the country is broken up into UTC0, UTC-1, UTC-3 and UTC-4. UTC-2 is only used during daylight savings. UTC0 is outside the country but the weather station Danmarkshavn, is set to European time for ease of reporting.
EK1o TIL All prisoners in Norway have internet in their cells.
Oo0mL TIL dogs actually like when their owners use silly high-pitched voices to talk to them
6ErBZ TIL of the "My Way Killings", a social phenomon in the Philipines where violence and murder often occur after someone performes Frank Sinatra's hit My Way on a Karaoke machine. At least 12 people have died from it.