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16M6W TIL the Wenja language from Far Cry Primal is designed to be a hypothetical ancestor of Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed common ancestor of many modern languages
VM86p TIL that since NHL players earn one point for a goal and one for an assist, if you took away every single one of Wayne Gretzky's goals, he would STILL be the NHL's all time leading scorer. In other words, he as more assists than anyone else has assists+goals.
6Ayl TIL that there is a species of ant that is totally incapable of caring for their young, or feeding themselves, and thus relies on slave labor from other ants
pMgO TIL In the 1820s, the biggest department of the US Government, even outnumbering war personnel, was the Post Office.
LQveP TIL the world's heaviest free-roaming tortoise is an Aldabra giant tortoise named Esmeralda who weighs 670 pounds (304kg), lives on Bird Island, Seychelles & is thought to be as much as 170 years old. He was named by famous botanist/zoologist Lyall Watson.