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TIL Lua -- the programming language behind WoW, Roblox, Wikimedia, nginx, and more -- was funded & created in 1993 by Jesuit engineers in order to comply with Brazil's strict barriers to international trade

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mxd9p TIL; the name for wanting to choke someone out for chewing loudly or breathing loudly is called "misophonia" and that it is traced to actual difference in brain processes.
e0D9E TIL of the Knights of Malta, a sovereign entity (part of the U.N. General Assembly) with 13,500 knights, 40,000 doctors and a further 80,000 volunteers. They have only 2 official citizens, but they still issue passports, coins and postage stamps despite having no physical land or territory
N7mV6 TIL about the 'greatest music teacher who ever lived': Nadia Boulanger, the first woman to conduct many major US and European orchestras, and whose students include Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Quincy Jones, Philip Glass, Astor Piazzolla and many more. She taught mainly from her own home.
yVVeM TIL that the brown-headed cowbird is an obligate brood parasite; it lays its eggs in the nests of other small birds. Once hatched the young cowbirds are fed by the host parents at the expense of their own young. More than 140 different species of birds are known to have raised young cowbirds.
R7KJj TIL the co-creator of Street Fighter, Takashi Nishiyama, also created and produced titles such as Moon Patrol, Kung Fu Master, Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and The King of Fighters.