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TIL French and Italian share 89% lexical similarity, this means a native Italian without any knowledge of French can understand 89% of the words they read in French and vice versa.

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woVEo TIL the only reason we have video of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series is because Bing Crosby was too nervous to watch the game live so he had a company record the game for him. During this time TV networks didn't keep records of the games. The tape was found 50 years later in his wine cellar.
loA9B TIL about the Polish Operation of the NKVD (Soviet security police) in ‘37-38, which was an anti-Polish mass ethnic cleansing operation carried out in the USSR, ordered by the Politburo, resulting in the sentencing of 139,835 people, and summary executions of 111,091 Poles.
v1KE8 TIL an 18-year-old from the UK was arrested after attending a youth group session about dealing with anti-social behaviour, as he had an anti-social behaviour order banning him from congregating with 4 or more youths and the group was larger than 3.
x6Nkw TIL that brothers Alfonso and Gonzalo, great-grandsons of Queen Victoria through their mother, Victoria Eugenie, died in almost exactly the same way—a car crash that led to fatal internal bleeding—almost exactly four years apart. They both had hemophilia, a genetic condition.
d8n7E TIL that in the Deep South, you can dig into a jar of sweet and sour Kool-Aid pickles (also know as Koolickles).