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TIL: That due to the reduced gravity on the moon humans could walk on water.

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x6bko TIL that the Navajo language, spoken by many indigenous peoples in Arizona and New Mexico, is related to indigenous languages of northwestern Canada and Alaska, all of which form the proposed Na-Dené language family.
VVaG TIL warming temperatures are making WWI military sites high up in the Alps accessible again, revealing relics and bodies from the “White War.”
4v66 TIL Alan Rickman staunchly defended Kevin Costner’s much criticized accent in Robin Hood, stating that 20th-century colloquial American was a lot closer to 12th-century Anglo-Saxon than modern British English.
nGrG TIL Squatting over the can makes for a quicker, more effortless poop session than sitting.
JGBV TIL Christian Bale suffered from insomnia and wandered around Rome in the dark often seeing another figure walking alone in Rome. After many weeks he approached the other figure and it was Viggo Mortensen suffering the same disorder!