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TIL that there is a group of languages called Khoisan that are know for there clicking sound for consonants, the largest of which called Khoe has over 250,000 speakers in Namibia.

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MWr7 TIL the star Mira has a surface that pulsates in such a way as to increase and decrease its brightness over periods ranging from about 80 to more than 1,000 days. This means sometimes the star is incredibly dim, while other times it is one of the brightest stars in its constellation.
MYZV TIL in ‘92, a doctor was accused of raping a woman while she was sedated in his office. He was cleared after DNA tests did not match. It was later discovered that he foiled the DNA test by implanting a tube of another man’s blood under his skin.
GYdYQ TIL: US President Ronald Reagan was the first to pardon a Thanksgiving turkey. He did it as a way to distract from a political scandal.
EWAX TIL Richard Stallman, a software freedom activist and computer programmer, and creator of a good portion of GNU/Linux, has 15 honorary doctorates
yVZjv TIL a group of pandas is most commonly called an "Embarrassment of pandas"