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TIL in Guatemala an estimated 40-60% of the population still speaks a Mayan language

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PYRWZ TIL Bangladesh is the most populous country to not win an Olympic medal with a population of 170 Million. Whereas San Marino is the least populous country to win an Olympic medal with a population of only 34 Thousand.
b9x5p TIL in Victorian times, the cheapest form of accommodation available was a “penny hang”. You could literally pay a penny to sleep over a ROPE. This was commonly used by drunk sailors who had spent all of their money and is the origin of the term “hangover“.
4kkL5 TIL that the treatment for being scalped is to have holes drilled through the exposed skull.
P1YkL TIL a man ate an entire airplane over the course of two years
R7KjQ TIL there was a general strike in Seattle in 1919 that lasted for six days, which supposedly resulted in "creating the first Red Scare" in America