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TIL There are still parts of Italy where they speak Greek since ancient times.

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Aryn TIL French Queen Marie Antoinette had a fully functioning peasant village built on the grounds of Versailles. She loved strolling the village in simple shepherdess garb pretending to live a simple life milking cows or sheep, which were carefully maintained and cleaned by the servants.
AN5Xn TIL that the 1955 children's book "When the Robbers Came to Cardamom Town" is considered to have contributed significantly to criminology in Norway
ANNZd TIL a broken Tamil bell was used as a pot to boil potatoes by Māori for generations in pre-contact New Zealand. It is unknown how the bell got to New Zealand
mZQp TIL A monkey paid for sex after learning how to use money.
x60p5 TIL that the song "Kids" by MGMT was one of the songs they wrote as a joke, which makes me a little sad, because it was one of my favorites.