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TIL a village in Portugal encourages children to smoke cigarettes as part of a traditional Epiphany ritual.

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x6POk TIL that the Great Vowel Shift in English is the reason why book and other words with long vowels is pronounced that way instead of It being pronounced “bo-uk”
E1A10 TIL Gold's yellow color and inertness are explained by Einstein’s theory of relativity. Gold's electrons travel so close to the speed of light that relativity contracts some of their orbits. This shrinks an energy gap so it absorbs blue light, and makes the outer electron less reactive.
KOD66 TIL LEGO has a secure, temperature- and humidity-controlled, fireproof underground vault in Denmark that contains every LEGO set ever made.
Me6n7 TIL About Africville, the black community of Halifax that was purposefully neglected by the city in an effort to make it un-livable. Halifax denied sewage, roads, and other services, even creating a toxic waste dump nearby, eventually Halifax bulldozed the community with people still in their houses
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