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TIL There is a town in Norway called Hell, and it freezes over almost every winter.

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woAP7 TIL about Charles Dickens’ son Frank, who joined the predecessors of Canada’s iconic Mounties after failing the British Foreign Office exams, losing his officer’s commission in the Bengal Mounted Police, and “squandering his inheritance on poor investments and disssipated living."
LkVWP TIL Rep. Ed Orcutt suggested a CO₂ tax for cyclists/bikers because "they exercise and breathe hard and therefore exhale more CO₂", claiming biking is bad for the environment.
JY57Q TIL of a building in Silver Spring, Md. that has an inflatable shark on it in relation to Discovery Channels's Shark Week.
E1B5w TIL The shortest commercial flight in the world is in Scotland. The flight goes between two islands in Orkney, Scotland, and lasts just 47 seconds.
l9la TIL that during the Hungarian Uprising, Radio Bucharest was raided by the Soviets in early October 1956, leaving only one western recording for the station to play: My Boy Lollypop by Barbie Gaye. The station played the song non stop for over a month, making it very much the song of the revolution.