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TIL the nursery rhyme "A-Tisket A-Tasket" was popularized by Ella Fitzgerald as a jazz standard

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l70P5 TIL in the first millennium, small Christian communities were established in south & east Asia. Some Mongol tribes were Christian, & some of Genghis Khan's daughter-in-laws came from Christian clans. A small Christian community was also established in India around 300AD, which still exists today.
9oBM TIL Academics have claimed the Australian accent is slurred due to the fact that forefathers regularly got drunk together and through their frequent interactions unknowingly added an alcoholic slur to our national speech patterns.
ADZ44 TIL Japanese are offered extra incentives for surrendering their drivers license such as discounted funerals.
kOgj5 TIL Boston police sent letters to 3,800 people wanted on charges ranging from shoplifting to drug dealing and invited them to be extras for a movie. 54 showed up, were met by officers posing as employees of a fictitious production company & escorted onto buses which took them to police headquarters
R5xw TIL on the Indonesian island Tana Toraja, if a baby dies before he starts teething, the family cuts a hole in a tree and places the dead child inside. The tree regrows around the baby and absorbs it.