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TIL: Domino’s in India created a pizza that looks like a burger

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MVkm TIL there is a constructed language that can be spoken, signed, played musically, written as words or numbers, drawn as shapes, or painted. It’s called Solresol.
6loW TIL when Pan Am 103 exploded over Lockerbie Scotland, a flight attended survived falling to the ground and was found by a farmers wife; however she died before help could be summoned.
MZla TIL that the record for a ‘polyglot’ (person fluent in multiple languages), is held by a 19th century British Governor to Hong Kong - who could fluently speak 100 languages and was familiar with approximately 200. The greatest living multi-linguist speaks 39.
Br8VL TIL about "Sgt. Bill", a man who claimed to be a DEA Agent and conducted raids on meth labs and made 20 arrests in the small town of Gerald, Missouri. However, it transpired that he was lying, and was an ex-convict, bankrupt and unemployed. However, he actually succeeded in getting rid of the meth.
AD5rg TIL the setting of the Chronicles of Narnia was based on a real Italian town now called Narni; C.S. Lewis got the idea for the place name after looking at an early 20th century atlas