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TIL INTERLINGUA is an auxiliary language that every Romance language (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, Romanian) speaker can easily understand without ever studying, thanks to these languages' common Latin roots.

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epka6 TIL Iona Morris was replaced as Storm in X-Men:The Animated Series because she would have been owed residuals otherwise
GYYlJ TIL if you spent one day on each island in Finland it would take you 960,000 days or ~2,630 years
rR5R0 TIL if you successfully fake insanity in your criminal trial, then somehow convince your doctors you are sane, they will not release you from state hospital, they will consider you a psychopath, because only a psychopath would fake insanity to avoid punishment.
KrbJ TIL when Harvey Weinstein wanted to edit Princess Mononoke to make it more marketable its director, Miyazaki, sent Weinstein a katana with a message stating “No cuts.”
GblQ TIL there’s a tribe in China that women are treated as superior to men, have as many sexual partners as they like free from judgement of the society