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TIL the Wenja language from Far Cry Primal is designed to be a hypothetical ancestor of Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed common ancestor of many modern languages

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0dXYM TIL that the universe has a color, called ‘Cosmic Latte’. Astronomers determined this by averaging the color of all light in the universe.
9wxeD TIL about the Gnomes of Wrocław. In the 1980s people in the Polish city began painting gnomes over Soviet propaganda. After the fall of the USSR, a sculptor was hired to place gnomes around the city to honor their history. Others joined in and now there are over 400 gnomes and an annual parade.
pY5vQ TIL the Beatles went by 'Johnny and the Moondogs' for a short period of time in 1959. The name was never used seriously, mainly seen on bootlegs created as a joke.
e0Y66 TIL In 2011 Mythbusters accidentally fired a cannonball through a residential neighborhood. The show was testing a myth at the Alameda Sheriff's Department bomb range when the ball bounced 700 yards off course going through a house, across the street, off a roof and into a car. No one was injured.
xbp5 TIL of a remarkable gypsy (Sinti) boxer in Nazi Germany, who after beating an ‘Aryan,’ was threatened by the Nazis into throwing his next match. He came to that match with dyed blonde hair and whiteface and lasted five rounds. His name: Johann Trollmann