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TIL a person survived 17 days under the rubble of department store collapse in South Korea that killed 500 people.

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yVkJ8 TIL there has been one member of the US Congress that was born into royalty. Prince Jonah Kuhio was Hawaiian nobility before the territory was annexed and he served in the House of Reps from 1903-1922. Happy Prince Kuhio Day / 152nd Bday!
XE9vP TIL that in 1996 In 1996 Canada’s Northwest Territories began exploring a name change. But the process was hijacked by pranksters who elevated the suggestion of “Bob” to second place over a variety of local Indigenous names.
VM9n0 TIL The novel Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is so incomprehensible that no two plot summaries made have ever agreed with each other. Some have even said any attempt to work out the plot is impossible and a waste of time.
9wN6m TIL that the species Lycosa aragogi is named after the spider Aragog from the Harry Potter book "The Chamber of Secrets"
VMge4 TIL: We know how ancient Sanskrit sounded because in the fifth century BCE, the Indian grammarian Panini produced a complete grammar of the language, including how all sounds are pronounced. The complexity of his linguistic analysis wasn't replicated until the 20th century.