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TIL In June 2019, the 350 residents of Sommaroy—which translates into “Summer Island”—signed a petition to make their home that sits west of Tormso north of the atlantic circle, the world's first time-free zone during the midnight sun period, from May 18 to July

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YLbG TIL Today there are more people of Norwegian Descent in the US than in Norway
b9Gn0 TIL that on April 1st, 1991, a thief stole a box from the trunk of a car in New York City and discovered six partial human heads with the backs of the skulls cut away. They turned out to be specimens for study at an infirmary and not a strange April Fools' prank.
e0rNn TIL that the children's game "Stella Ella Ola" can be found around the world, but that the only places where the lyrics are "Stella Stella" as opposed to "Stella Ella" are in Vancouver, B.C., and Brandon, MB.
xVye0 TIL farmers in Botswana have started painting eyes on their cow's bottoms to stop lions from attacking them.
N74JP TIL a dispatcher who told a woman to deal with a shot and dying boy herself later received a 25,000$ settlement after suing for being fired as a dispatcher.