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TIL that “huh” is a universal word, existing in almost every language across the world

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N18E TIL Dorothy Kilgallen, a panelist on the hit TV show What’s My Line?, died under what some consider mysterious circumstances while investigating the assassination of JFK. Shortly before she died, she told a friend, “I’m going to break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century.”
0dkOL TIL the Chinese New Year parade in San Francisco is the largest celebration outside of asia
Oovl4 TIL Steve-O Celebrated 10 Years of Sobriety by Participating in a Triathlon
KYXE4 Today I learned about the Dutch Disease (aka Resource Curse) where a nation is resource rich nations, through corruption and/or inefficiency, are incapable of turning the resources into economic growth.
v1DK8 TIL New Mexico whiptail lizard is an all female species. Their eggs develop without being fertilized and all of their offspring are female. By nature, they only have same-sex relationship.