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TIL That Lewis Carrol's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" requires great creativity on the part of translators as they need to invent nonsense words that evoke similar feelings to each made-up word in the English original.

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vWyr TIL on the island of Yap they use giant stone disks as currency. Instead of moving the stones, they trade them by agreeing that a stone has a new owner. In fact, when one stone fell into the ocean, people continued to trade the stone despite it being underwater and inaccessible.
E1yXp TIL the odds of having the same finger print as someone else is 1 in 64 billion. Because there have been over 108 billion people to have ever lived on earth, many people, either dead or alive, will have to have the same fingerprint
e0ajL Today I learned that Clem Burke, the original drummer for Blondie, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Gloucestershire for participating in an eight year study which examined the effects of drumming (psychological, physical) and demands on a professional drummer's stamina.
OGMYg TIL of the chess cheating scandal, where Magnus Carlsen accused Hans Niemann of repeatedly cheating
neDbb TIL there are two types of amnaesia - retrograde (where you lose past memories but can form new ones) and anterograde (where you can't form new memories).