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TIL - “The death of the chemistry set is almost an unintended consequence of the rise in consumer protection laws.”

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gMXM9 The earliest English word we have a record of was discovered during an archaeological dig near Norwich, England in the early 1930s. It was written in an ancient runic script carved on the bone of a deer: "raihan."
ADRaa TIL that all Nouns are Capitalized in the German Language.
rQQy TIL that when the Queen dies, the BBC will cancel all comedy shows until after the funeral
6E4jX TIL Yugoslav people still exist. Most of them were of mixed descent, being unable to identify as part of any specific ethnicity. Thus they chose to identify as “Yugoslavs”, and stuck with it.
PYeyE TIL that, under Genghis Khan, the Mongol Empire was a Meritocracy (government by people promoted on a basis of Merit rather than Nepotism)