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TIL Japan is offering smiling classes because some people forgot how to do so during the pandemic

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BkEr TIL the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, and possibly Indian alphabets are all derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs via the Phoenician alphabet.
5YBQB TIL 320,000 unknown viruses infect mammals worldwide related to know virus, and likely many more related to unknown viruses.
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