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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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p8V8b TIL Ireland was as neutral as Switzerland during World War II
BrRMK TIL Farmers sometimes put goldfish in a horses water trough to control mosquito and other insect larvae from producing
l7p9V TIL about The Million Dollar Highway in Colorado. It was built in 1883 as a toll way and operated as such until the 1920s when it was rebuilt. Legend has it that an early traveler was so overcome by vertigo on the steep, winding road that he said he would never travel it again even for a million $.
D1VLj TIL that Tiger woods is the first golfer who hit a ball from Europe to Asia. He did this on the bosphorus bridge in Istanbul, Turkey which is the bridge that connects asia and europe.
GA7RG TIL Just two weeks before the 1892 U.S. Presidential election, First Lady Caroline Harrison died. The voters were unsympathetic and Benjamin Harrison lost re-election. Their daughter Mary served out the term as First Lady.