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TIL that third places - areas other than the home or the workplace where humans can connect and unwind, are dying, and this is a silent killer of our communities

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W7NNY TIL Click languages are a group of languages found only in Africa in which clicks function as normal consonants. The sole report outside Africa of a language using clicks involves the special case of Damin, a ritual vocabulary of the Lardil of northern Queensland, Australia.
Ee6w TIL Alex the Grey Parrot had a vocabulary of over 100 words and could distinguish seven colors and five shapes. He once asked what color he was, making him the first and only non-human animal to ever ask an existential question.
dDkb8 TIL Neil Diamond wrote and released a top ten hit in 1982 inspired by the movie ET. The film studio sued him for copyright infringement and they settled for $25,000.
pxeN TIL In 1987, the US Army’s Night Stalkers stole an Russian attack helicopter from a desert in Chad
yAYJ TIL Mick Foley nearly died during a wrestling match in 1998’s Hell in a Cell when he & Undertaker went off script. He was knocked unconscious after being thrown from the top of the cell, got up from the stretcher, climbed back up, choke slammed through the cell, and then once again on a bed of tacks