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TIL Kandahar, Afghanistan may have derived its name from Alexander the Great, who founded the city around 330 BC.

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684l TIL that if you are dyslexic in an alphabetic language like English, you may not be in a pictographic language, like Mandarin, as brain scans show them occurring in different places.
j6pdR TIL the great mathematician Leonhard Euler once believed the Earth was falling into the sun "where it would necessarily be burnt."
4kNyo TIL Japan has over 3000 businesses that have been operating for over 200 years
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