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TIL Finnish has no gender-specific pronouns, oftentimes causing them to call someone a “he” instead of “she” in English.

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WkW9L TIL about Wim Hof the Dutch extreme athlete known as The Iceman. Hof climbed to an altitude of 7,200 metres (23,600 ft) on Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts and shoes. He also has shared his regimen for battling the cold referred to as The Wim Hof method.
bwg0 TIL for almost 2 decades, the American nuclear launch codes were: 00000000
lOnA TIL it’s possible that Arabs traded with Australia long before Europeans arrived there.
loN8B TIL China's mass surveillance system, the largest and most intricate in the world, is literally called Skynet.
veB8 TIL Japan provided almost $30 million from tsunami recovery funds to finance the country’s annual whale hunt.