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TIL Nias language is the only language in Indonesia that has a voiced bilabial trill sound /ʙ/.

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lYaK TIL there’s a man made pit in Nova Scotia. To this day, people don’t know what’s at the bottom of it.
p8kxQ TIL of Gan Ying, a Chinese envoy who in 97 AD was sent on a diplomatic mission to Rome. He would turn around in Mesopotamia, discouraged by sailors who gave him a lengthy estimate on a sea voyage. Unknown to him Parthia shared a land border with Rome, which was only a months travel away from him.
1aDNV TIL that birds in general and crows (because they’re black to us) have something called Ultraviolet Vision that makes them colorful to each other
rVP4 TIL Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was, coincidentally, Moon.
QRJp TIL: Leonard Cohen wrote more than 80 verses for Hallelujah before deciding which made the final cut for the song.