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TIL twitter was almost called Twitch.

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g6bX TIL a Chinese assassin once killed a king by spending years training as a royal chief, preparing the kings favorite kind of fish and when presenting it to him pulling out a sword he baked into it and stabbing him to death.
D7Kp TIL that in 2006, all outdoor advertisements were banned in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Within a year, 15000 billboards were taken down in South America’s largest city.
e0kMJ TIL Edgar Allen Poe once wrote a love letter to the dash, a form of punctuation he felt was unfairly demonized.
JYG7m TIL that Russians eat ice cream in the winter to be warm
E15nV TIL Portuguese, not Spanish, is the predominately spoken language on the continent of South America. (by a small margin)