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TIL - The German language expanded because people began speaking differently due to a consonant shift, a phonological development that makes people pronounce consonants differently.

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1WbP TIL there are more black people in Chicago than in all of Canada.
a8PLo TIL the first special effect in a film was The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1895
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