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TIL there is a Syrian city where Aramaic, the language of Jesus, is still widely spoken

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oRpRK TIL before becoming a renowned writer, Eudora Welty worked as a photographer for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the 1930s, documenting rural life in Mississippi. Her photography often reflected the same keen observation of people and their environments as her fiction.
yVOAw TIL Conan O’Brien was once stalked by a Catholic priest
p8XRG TIL there are no railways and no roads connecting any of the towns in Greenland. Historically the major means of transportation has been by boat around the coast in summer and by dog sled in winter. Nowadays air travel, by helicopter or other aircraft, is the main way of travel.
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1mPV TIL that when Agatha Christie mysteriously disappeared in 1926, the police asked Arthur Conan Doyle to help find her.