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l7aLN TIL the character in the 1986 TV special Garfield in Paradise that could translate for everyone was named Pigeon.
rXMe TIL that a Native American people, the Choctaw, donated money to the Irish during the Great Famine after suffering starvation themselves in the Trail of Tears
e015E TIL that some Vikings had 'Allah' embroidered into funeral clothes and a ring found in a tomb near Stockholm had 'for Allah' inscribed on the stone.
0drp TIL in the 1970s there was a Utopian village in Nigeria where there were no cemeteries because the villagers thought they were immortal.
4kZyo TIL that the last major attempt at colonization by the British Empire began in 1938. The Phoenix Islands Settlement Scheme was intended to start sustainable settlements on three Pacific atolls to increase British influence in the area. With coconuts as their only export, they were abandoned in 1963.