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TIL in 1933 a family in Georgia recorded a song they had passed down for generations without knowing what language it was in. Later, it was found the song was fron the Mende language of the Sierra Leone, preserved for nearly 200 years from the time their enslaved ancestors were brought to America.

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Oo9P7 TIL that in the 1970s, an unemployed haulage contractor named Arthur Hickey proposed to turn the Titanic into an iceberg using liquid nitrogen in order to raise her to the surface. It was calculated that this would have required half a million tons of liquid nitrogen.
e04DE TIL about the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act which states that it is illegal for a company to void warranties on items that have been self-repaired with third party parts, like phones, gaming consoles, and vehicles.
D1AVY TIL In Singapore, a $17,000 Mitsubishi car is sold at $104,000 due to taxes and fees imposed on the automotive industry by the Singaporean government, in an effort to limit traffic congestion and air pollution.
W7xBX TIL studies show that acute exercise can increase sexual arousal in women.
wNdo TIL that there are roughly 5,000 words of Old Norse origin present in the lexis of the English language and that one in 33 men in Britain can claim Norse ancestry.