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TIL that BBC online news has a Pidgin language edition!! Literally found it out minutes ago, now can't stop reading it!

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RaAw TIL that thanks to a 1997 Texas law, astronauts can vote from space on Election Day (via secure email to Johnson Space Center).
5VGkn TIL Chef Boy-Ar-Dee was a truly accomplished Italian immigrant chef named Ettore Boiardi, pronounced like his namesake brand, beginning with sauce in 1928. His company imported more parmesan cheese than any other company in America. He began when grocery patrons helped him can his sauce for sale.
wekJ TIL there is a registered satirical party in Germany named “The Party”(politically). Their youth organisation is the “Hintner Jugend”. Their goals are to rebuild the Berlin Wall, a CEO quota for lazy people and making the tax system even more complicated (among others).
d88y7 TIL Almost two thousand years after it was built, the Pantheon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome.
PY4n TIL There was a scam called the “Spanish prison letter,” where victims received letters claiming to be written by a previously unknown Wealthy relative trapped in a Spanish prison. the prisoner would promise to share his fortune with the victim if they could manage to send the bail money.