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TIL that the Muslims who invaded Spain from North Africa in the 8th century likely spoke an African dialect of Latin, rather than Arabic or a more native African language like Berber

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R5Rlw TIL Jeffrey Dahmer accidentally roofied himself once instead of the intended victim, and he awoke to find that they had robbed him of several items of his clothing, $300, and a watch.
Z84eo TIL that George Washington’s ancestral home in England still stands. Which still has the original coat of arms used on the a Medal of Honour and the Washington D.C flag.
5ZWQ TIL that India’s former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao spoke 17 languages - 8 foreign languages (English, French, Arabic, Spanish, German, Greek, Latin and Persian) and 9 Indian languages (Telugu, Hindi, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil and Urdu)
0w7nL TIL: the popular Sriracha sauce in the US (in the green-capped bottle) tastes different because they have a different supplier of chile peppers. The owner sued the original supplier for $1 million claiming he overpaid. The farmer countersued and won $23.3 million and now makes his own sriracha.
M6vV TIL firefighters in Tennessee let a house burn because the homeowners didn’t pay a “$75 fire subscription fee”