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TIL that Ancient Greek was the official language of Greece until 1976.

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BgJWW TIL that despite homosexual activity being punishable by death in the country, Iran allows gender reassignment surgery, and performs more of them than any country except Thailand. In 2005 they did 7 times as many as all of the EU combined.
9YQXM TIL that that black holes "spaghettify" any objects entering the black hole, stretching them out like spaghetti in a process called spaghettification.
jkxN TIL in 2006, a man disappeared from a Columbus bar with security footage of him entering the building but no security footage exiting it. To this day he has yet to be found.
OorE4 TIL That serotonin, the neurotransmitter responsible for happiness, can be toxic. When injected into skin it causes extreme pain and is a main ingredient of wasp venom
P9Kw TIL: William Ellison (1790 – 1861), a freed slave, became a wealthy plantation owner, supported the Confederate States of America and held 60 of his own slaves