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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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E7oV TIL the word ‘Matrix’ is Latin for 'womb’
BrWbe TIL Principal Akbar Cook installed a free fully-stocked laundry room at school because students with dirty clothes were bullied and missing 3-5 days of school per month. Attendance rose 10%.
Z816a TIL that Spanish scientists have developed a 3D bioprinter which can print sheets of functional human skin for use in research or even transplants
xeG5 TIL a mathematician discovered a formula for the act of kindness, eventually he committed suicide because of despondency over his inability to continue helping the homeless.
nej4Y TIL - An 8th grader tried to pay for her lunch with a 2 Dollar Bill that had been given to her by her grandmother. The police were called because the school thought it was fake, and investigated where the bill had been obtained. In the end, the bill was real.