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What is the word snowflake?

Sneflok (plural: snowflocks or snowflakes) is an obsolete word that meant “snowflakes” and in Hans Christian Andersen Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen, the first printing (1845) reads “Sneeflokker”, but this was corrected in 1855 to “Sneefnokker”, and in 1862 to “Sneefnug”.

How long is the rail network in the US?

The railroad network in the United States has a length of 271,619 kilometers, which is enough to make a train track that travels seven times around the earth at the equator.