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TIL that Aomori City, Japan, is the snowiest city in the world.

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MePj0 TIL of the "50 Cent Army" in China. Online commentators who are paid ¥0.50 for every post to manipulate public opinion on social media.
Z89xD TIL in America, if you find a dinosaur in your backyard, that is now your dinosaur.
b9jL4 TIL the "Nuclear football" is a mobile command center that can launch a nuclear strike to any city on Earth in under 3 minutes.
9YK16 TIL the 2009 stimulus bill passed to mitigate the financial crisis included a powerful independent oversight board that scrutinized every dime spent, and perhaps as a result, it produced remarkably low levels of fraud and abuse
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