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TIL Ocracoke has a dialect similar to Elizabethan English. Sadly it’s almost extinct.

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W7o54 TIL that moslem women are not allowed to fast during their period. They are also not allowed to pray or enter a mosque. (Patriarchy at it's best?)
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