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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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8BZ TIL that IKEA ran the first commercial in the US featuring a homosexual couple. It was shown once and then pulled following bomb threats to the stores.
ANNQ4 TIL McKamey Manor, an EXTREME haunted house attraction in Tennessee in which the guests must sign a liability waiver to participate: can't leave the experience without permission& subjected to various forms of physical and psychological torture: having bones broken, teeth removed, & being drugged.
leVB TIL a teacher had sex with a student on her first day of the job. Within hours of starting.
x6AWb TIL that ABBA, one of the most successful bands of all time, found fame by winning an international song competition, "Eurovision", in 1974.
wL7eE TIL of John Taylor, a charlatan from the 18th century, parading from town to town doing bogus eye operations, and allegedly blinding hundreds of people, including famous composers Handel, and Bach.