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TIL that the BBC has a section where the news is written in Pidgin.

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oBnlW TIL a drifter named Theodore Coneys, AKA the Denver Spider Man, broke into a man’s house and hid in the tiny attic, ended up murdering the man, then continued to hide in the attic for months during the murder investigation, while the murdered man’s wife still lived in the house.
ANxJn TIL an analysis of the judges at the California State Fair wine competition (the oldest in North America) found that they "constantly" contradicted themselves; only about one in ten regularly rated the same wine in a similar manner each time.
mxVlM TIL when Dungeons & Dragons was released, various groups believed it was a front for murderous Satanists. This lead to Tom Hanks’ first starring role in the TV propaganda movie Mazes and Monsters, in which he becomes his D&D character and stabs a hobo in Manhattan because he thought it was a goblin.
J76V TIL that Alexandre Dumas, the French author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, was black.
VOLk TIL that the biggest lake in the Caribbean is getting bigger very quickly, having more than doubled in size in the last 10 years