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TIL that the Swedish language is more closely related to Kurdish, Persian, or Hindi than it is to Finnish

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e0OAD TIL 1 in 4 Irish citizens either died or left Ireland during the great potato famine of the 1840s.
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rRXn1 TIL Johnny Cash once got into a fight with an Ostrich that sent him to the hospital with broken ribs and a laceration on his stomach.
b0Mp TIL that in the 90s a Penn State researcher introduced pigs to joy-stick controlled video games, and in weeks they would begin to “beg to play video games. They beg to be the first ones out of their pens, then they trot up the ramp to play.”
G9LQ TIL cupid is supposed to be blind