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TIL Romanian is a romance language, along with Latin, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

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yQkJp TIL of "White Friday"; during World War 1 in Italy an avalanche struck an army barracks killing 270 soldiers. Both Italian and Austrian sides then deliberately fired shells into the weakened snowpacks in an attempt to bury the other side. 10,000 people were killed altogether.