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Today I learned that sign languages also have accents.

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kRZm TIL the eighth commandment is interpreted as “Thou shalt not steal” in Christianity and as “Thou shalt not kidnap (people)” in Judaism. Which is not to imply that theft is permitted: it is forbidden elsewhere in the Tanakh.
Wwa8 TIL: “Government once even claimed that Hooters discriminates against men because it hires big-breasted female waiters. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission only dropped its complaint after Hooters ran a commercial showing a hairy male server wearing Hooters’ skimpy uniform.”
GAy81 TIL the male common rain frog is much smaller than his female counterpart so they mutually secrete a glue like substance to hold them together for reproduction. This glue can hold them together for days to months.
OoQBL TIL: Joshua Bell, one of the top violinists in the world played during rush hour in a DC metro station on his 3.5 million dollar violin. He acted like a normal street performer, It was an experiment to see if normal people would notice his musical talent. They did not.
KYg8E TIL that Beefalo constitute a hybrid offspring of domestic cattle (usually a male), and the American bison (usually a female). The breed was created to combine the characteristics of both animals for beef production.