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TIL Norwegians pay half tax in November (compensating by pay more tax in other months), so everyone has more money for Christmas.

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WjZN TIL that George Boole, the mathematician and philosopher renowned mostly for his logic, died when his wife, in an effort to cure his pneumonia, poured buckets of cold water all over him - believing that “remedies should resemble their cause”
4kXKa TIL that watercress technically has more protein per calorie (roughly 21g/100 Kcal) than a lot of protein powders(standard whey protein powders have about 20g/100 Kcal).
0wW1v TIL that in the early 20th century, patients with syphilis were successfully treated by being transfused with infected blood from people with malaria. The researcher was given the 1929 Nobel Prize for his discovery.
D1VPr TIL that you need to climb 2 hours on a 800 meters (0.5 miles) steel ladder to get to the clifftop village of Atule'er in Southern China. Recently 72 families were relocated to a town under the cliff, but 30 households intend to stay in their clifftop homes, partly due to a newfound tourist economy.
Y7akA TIL that catnip does not affect all cats because catnip sensitivity is an inherited genetic trait. Kittens that have the trait for catnip sensitivity will be affected at around 3 months old.