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TIL the preferred ringtone for al-Qaeda influenced militants in Mali is laughing baby because it is not music and also is family-friendly

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ADova TIL Nova Roma is an international Roman revivalist and reconstructionist organization, later incorporated as a non-profit organization with an educational and religious mission. It claims to promote "the restoration of classical Roman religion, culture, and virtues" and "shared Roman ideals".
78Or7 TIL At one point in the 1980s, China had an estimated 400,000 Esperanto speakers, and the language was taught at a number of universities. Now there is only one Chinese college Esperanto program left
9Z8p TIL kangaroo rats are so adapted to desert life that they can go their whole lives without a single drink of water.
16ldd TIL that in 4 billion years, when the Milky Way galaxy collides with the Andromeda Galaxy, the distance between the stars will be so vast that none of the 1.3 trillion stars are expected to collide.
E6Jw TIL the original Doom outsold the Windows OS. Id was only 12 employees strong at the time.