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TIL that ‘Huh?’ is a universal word expressing misunderstanding, found in languages across the globe including: Icelandic, Russian, Spanish, Mandarin, Cha’palaa, Murrinh-Patha, and Lao.

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7R7M TIL that Vincent Chin was beat to death with a baseball bat by two disgruntled Detroit Auto-workers on June 23, 1989. They served no jail-time and only paid a fine of $3000. Because of this, Vincent Chin’s murder is often considered the beginning the Asian American movement for civil rights.
R7kQa TIL that the Babylonians actually discovered Trigonometry about 1,500 years before the Greeks. Not only were their tables more accurate because of their base-60 numerical system (which made thirds more accurate), but their approach using ratios is something relatively novel to us, today.
ElyW TIL when George R.R. Martin was young, he wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles. The turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he finally decided they were killing each other off in “sinister plots”.
NXBEP TIL testicles have taste buds that can taste Umami.
Wky88 TIL George Washington established the 'Contingency Fund for Foreign Intercourse', which funded spying operations in Europe. By 1793 it consumed 12% of the federal budget.