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TIL That Scotland has over 400 words for snow in Gaelic ( Scotland's Native Language)

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E1QkP TIL Botswana's currency is named Pula which literally means "rain" in their official language. This is because rain is very scarce in Botswana — home to much of the Kalahari Desert — and therefore valuable and a blessing.
8eaaP TIL that after 9/11, On January 5, 2002, Charles Bishop, a high-school student from Florida, United States, stole a Cessna 172 light aircraft and purposefully crashed it into the side of the Bank of America Tower in downtown Tampa, Florida, killing no one but himself in the process
9YEY6 TIL 69 year ago on April 20th, Danny DeVito's favorite movie "Miracle in Milan" by Vittorio De Sica, was awarded with the Grand Prize at the Cannes Festival.
wPLE TIL there is a Train station in Sweden that uses people’s body heat to warm adjacent buildings
4kbbX TIL that ritchie valens was only 17 on the day the music died and he recorded "La Bamba" when he was 16.