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TIL the broken bottle scam originated in the Qing Dynasty and was originally used with fake porcelain

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dDAP8 TIL that the goofy "baby talk" most adults naturally use to talk to babies actually helps them develop language better than speaking them normally.
78ZnX TIL of Patagonian Welsh, a dialect found in Argentina developed by Welsh immigrants in the 1870s in an effort to preserve the Welsh language.
WkwPL TIL David Attenborough has released an album of Field Recordings from Across the Planet dating from 50 years ago , and featuring indigenous music from a time before these cultures had been influenced by western music.
p8gLZ TIL that the earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree appears in the middle of the 15th century and none before that.
YbJr TIL of Myrtle Corbin, a dipygus with two separate pelvises, two vaginas, and two uteri. She preferred intercourse in her right side, but became pregnant on her left.