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

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5veR TIL Jeff Bridges said of working on Iron Man, “They had no script, man. We would show up for big scenes every day and we wouldn’t know what we were going to say. We would go into our trailer and call up writers on the phone, ‘You got any ideas?’”
6EMbm TIL that Kostas Sarantidis is a Greek-Vietnamese soldier who fought with the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. He is the only foreign soldier awarded Vietnamese honour "Hero of the People's Armed Forces"
woZ1W Today I learned that the word kindergarten (a German word directly translating to child garden) was coined in the 18th century by Friedrich Fröbel, who laid the foundation for the modern education system. Before then, children under 7 didn't attend school.
YgJZ TIL that tomorrow marks the 8000th day of the internet
loYaa TIL about Typhoid Mary: the first asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. In her job as a cook she infected 51 people. She was forcibly isolated for 3 years; being released on the promise she didn’t return to cooking. She did return, was caught and confined for the remainder of her life (23 years).