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TIL that in Kongthong village of Meghalaya in India, people have two names, one being a regular name and the other being a song name called ‘Jingrwai Lawbei', which is a musical tunes as names

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5YPnk TIL of Tyra Winters, a Highschool cheerleader who saved the life of a choking toddler during a homecoming parade. She was on a float and jumped down from it when she spotted the suffering boy in the crowd. She’d gotten CPR training in the 8th grade and used it to save his life.
8ax1X TIL that Little Miss Muffet was eating cottage cheese, which was known as "curds and whey" during the 17th century.
eP6E TIL that after WWII, the U.S. Congress considered a proposal to make Iceland the 49th state
J1X8 TIL That the term “Third World Country” does not mean poor, it refers to a country which was not aligned with either America/First World or Soviet/Second World during the Cold War.
OoGOX The sky appears blue for a combination of two reasons. Before white light reaches the Earth's surface, the light waves collide with and bounce off of the nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. Different frequencies of light (in other words different colours) are scattered differently. Higher frequencies (blue and purple) are more easily scattered and thus bounce around in all different directions more than lower frequencies (red or orange) do. The scattering of high frequencies alone would cause the sky to appear blue and purple, but our eyes work better at frequencies near the middle of the spectrum (yellow and green). Since the colour blue is closer to yellow or green than purple is, the sky we see appears blue.