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TIL much of what we know about pirates comes from a single primary source with questionable reliability.

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R5vww TIL my partners dad just had a bone marrow transfer, he now has two sets of DNA and his blood type has changed! On a side note, if you donated bone marrow in the last two weeks, thank you very much!❤️‍🩹
Ywrv TIL Iceland is extremely protective of their language, instead of loaning words from other languages they repurpose old ones, telephone is ‘simi’, meaning thread, jet plane is 'thota’, meaning to zoom and the word for computer, 'tölva’ translates to number priestess or numbers witch.
epVGD TIL The island nation of Tuvalu's remote location limited the development of tourism and it has only one hotel, the 17 room Vaiku Lagi Hotel
8eLW8 TIL an artificial heart is only temporary, implanted to keep patients alive until they can receive a heart transplant
WkpVX TIL of the Moriori, a Pacifist people who, when being wiped out by a neighbouring Polynesian tribe, decided that their non-violent beliefs were more important than their own survival.