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TIL Japan has had heated roads for 56 years which use shosetsu (snow melting) pipe system using the heat energy of groundwater to melt snow on roads

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wLZVJ TIL Paw Paw French is a dialect of French that was widely spoken in Missouri for hundreds of years. Today there are only a few dozen native speakers left.
4ZWa TIL that ‘never’ is a contraction of 'not ever’
rRlZy TIL About Ama, female Japanese pearl divers that start diving at the age of 12-13, and are well active into their 70s. They endure freezing conditions and great pressure from deep sea depths to get pearls. They have a unique technique in which they release air in a long whistle as they resurface.
WG98 TIL that suicide candidates in 18th-century Denmark were afraid to take their own lives because they believed it would send them to hell. Instead, they resorted to killing other people to receive the death penalty and repented before execution, believing that doing so would send them to heaven.
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