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TIL a linguistic study discovered that winter workers in Antarctica started to develop a new accent. They noticed a change after measuring the participants' vocal characteristics before and after their visit. This is the result of them being isolated as a group and interacting with only one another.

kowg TIL Internet addiction is classed as a ‘mental illness’ See you lot in rehab.
6EPKX TIL that the first Christian marriage in what is now the US was between a white man and a black woman.
L9P TIL Queen Victoria smoked pot to ease the pain of childbirth
XEA9k TIL that most pencils are yellow because in the 1880s one manufacturer chose that color to indicate they were luxury pencils
lo951 A tiger at the Bronx Zoo tested positive for the coronavirus.