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TIL in many asian languages, the word for "4" is extremely similar to their word for "death" causing Tetraphobia - the fear and practice of avoiding the number 4

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9wk9X TIL the familiar music played during Final Jeopardy is called "Think". It was written in 1963 by Merv Griffin, creator of Jeopardy, to help his then five-year-old son Tony fall asleep. Since its first use in the show in 1964, the song has earned the Griffin estate over $100 million in royalties.
eplVb TIL that "Julian and Sandy", gay characters in a 1960s radio show, were the first to introduce the gay slang language Polari to a wider audience.
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mxdmv TIL One language dies every 14 days. There are 7,000 languages among 7 billion humans. Within the next century, nearly half of all languages are estimated to go extinct.
mV4M TIL in 1964, a man photographing his daughter in a marsh captured what appears to be an astronaut standing behind her; he claims no one else was present in the shot other than the girl