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TIL there is no universally accepted criterion for distinguishing two different languages from two dialects (i.e. varieties) of the same language. What's considered a language is therefore subjective.

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JbG1 TIL critics complained Indian artist Daler Mehndi of being popular only because he featured beautiful dancing women in his music videos. Mehndi’s response was to create a music video that featured only himself. So that’s how the popular music video “Tunak Tunak Tun” was born.
W75Z9 TIL that Lee Harvey Oswald and President Teddy Roosevelt were 3rd cousins, 1x removed. Roosevelt’s maternal grandmother Susannah and Oswald’s great-grandfather Thomas Hepworth Sr. were siblings.
Br98k TIL that Segway Inc., the company that originally produced "the Segway", a two-wheeled vehicle once hailed as the future of personal transportation, permanently stopped producing the Segway in 2020.
nOk7 TIL The world’s first motion picture screening was held in December 1895. Within one year the earliest pornographic movie Le Coucher de la Mariée was released
JRDB TIL After Dante Rosetti’s wife died he buried her with the only copy of his unpublished poems. Later Rosetti found himself suffering from writer’s block, so he dug her up and retrieved his poems. They were published and well received by critics. He never forgave himself for reopening her grave.