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TIL of Mi'kmaw Hieroglyphs, a Native North American writing system, whose native name (Gomgwejui'gasit) translate as 'Suckerfish script'

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YdvG TIL there is a planned theme park in London called ‘London Paramount’ that will cost £2bn and be 1.5x the size of Disneyland and have BBC themed rides such as Doctor Who
RWR8 TIL that beginning in the 1940s through the 1960s, the Quebec government collaborated with the Catholic Church to falsely certify 20,000 “orphaned” children as mentally ill and confine them to psychiatric institutions. The orphans were then subjected to medical experimentation and sexual abuse.
46bJ TIL a statue of a Roman emperor in Britain was vandalized in 2003 with (grammatically correct) Latin
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VBlbp TIL That Darwin, Australia at 17 per 10000 people, is the broken jaw capital of the world.