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Go running over cycling to avoid brittle bones, men told

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Qn69 TIL that two days before Hurricane Katrina struck, two Ohio tourists were arrested in New Orleans on public drunkenness charges. In the chaotic aftermath of the storm, they were jailed for more than a month in the city’s flooded jail
yQL1V TIL that Morse Code is neither morse nor a code. It's a cipher, and the version we use/refer to was made by Morse's colleague Alfred Vail.
d8AxZ TIL A guy quit his job and practiced golf for 6,000 hours to put the theory of "intensive practice" to the test and become a pro golfer
e0814 TIL there exists a Linguistic Diversity Index: the probability [0-1] that 2 people selected from at random will have different mother tongues. Papua New Guinea comes first with a score of 0.988 as it has over 820 indigenous languages. Some other scores ~ India: 0.914, USA: 0.333, UK: 0.154