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TIL that the city of Marseille dates back to an ancient Greek colony named Massalia and is considered one of Europe's oldest continuously inhabited settlements.

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yQ94e TIL that pork is a "red meat" for nutritional studies (which tie red meat consumption to heart disease and cancer), and the "other white meat" phrase was just a marketing campaign by the pork industry.
x6OOw TIL that some people are born with their internal organs mirrored horizontally across their body, known as Situs Inversus. 🫀
x6ryw TIL that, in the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803-04, William Clark spelled the word "Sioux" in 27 different ways.
AD9r7 TIL of the European custom of "telling the bees," wherein bees would be told of marriages, funerals, and other important events in their keepers' lives.
rROke TIL: Steven Spielberg's film, "The Terminal" is based on a real man named Mehran Karimi Nasseri, who lived in Terminal One in Charles de Gauile Airport for 18 years