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TIL: The Cia Cia language, an Austroniasian language spoken in Buton, an island in Indonesia, is written in the Korean alphabet (Hangul).

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v1Zxr TIL Frederick Douglass Was The Most Photographed Man Of His Time and sat for more portraits during the 1800s than even Abraham Lincoln. He spelled out in four speeches, essays on why photography is so important in ending slavery and racism and achieving civil rights
5VKEr TIL of Joe Arridy who was a 23-year-old man with an IQ score of 46 and the mind of a six-year-old who was wrongfully convicted and executed in 1939. He did not understand the meaning of the gas chamber, telling the warden "No, no, Joe won't die". He smiled while being taken to the gas chamber.
rR8B1 TIL at their closest points, Russia and the USA are only 2.4 miles apart.
86YG TIL that in the United States, more money is stolen by employers from employees each year than is stolen in robberies, burglaries, larcenies and auto thefts COMBINED. The most common victims of wage theft are low wage workers.
8adxG TIL Foreign accent syndrome is an extremely rare condition which makes someone beginner to fluent in a language after you wake up from Coma!