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TIL There are isolated communities in Eastern Canada that speak Gaelic

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yV5oa TIL a study showed that during trials, expert witnessses who displayed moderate confidence, rather than high or low confidence, were rated the highest in terms of credibility. Ratings of this credibility was correlated to sentencing outcomes.
9Yxv7 TIL In 2012 a scientific study predicted a 39 inch rise in sea level along the North Carolina coast over the next century. In response, North Carolina lawmakers passed a law banning the use of scientific predictions of sea level rise when considering new developments along the coast.
8llV TIL that Lord Voldemort Was a Character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
QjLk TIL in the most famous account of her birth, Aphrodite was created when the titan Kronos castrated his father, Uranus. When the genitals fell into the sea, Aphrodite was born. This would also make her the oldest of the Gods and Goddesses.
LkOPp TIL a Cuneiform clay tablet made in 703 BC, copied from an astronomers notebook from 3100 BCE, is evidence that Sodom and Gomorrah were actually destroyed by a 1 km wide asteroid that then went on to hit Austria.