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Today I learned that Yondu Udonta might speak Silbo Gomero to his killing arrows

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pYWbA TIL about Damacus Goat, a special breed of goats with odd features of their head that make them look like monsters
rv8o TIL of the word defenestrate which means “to throw (someone) out of a window.” There are two separate events known as “The Defenestration of Prague” - both times it started a war.
d8l0B TIL that Ostracism, intentionally excluding people, is derived from the Ancient Greek practice of temporarily expelling citizens they thought were a threat to society. Voters would scratch the name of the person to be expelled on broken pieces of pottery, called in Ancient Greek, "ostrakon."
gMl08 TIL Standard Arabic, the Arabic taught in a majority of schools, is based off of the language Prophet Mohammad spoke. It is a language that nobody naturally speaks, and is preserved through formal education and news broadcasts. Egyptian Arabic is the most widely-understood dialect
LkpbZ TIL Alexander the Great has a giant glass barrel made. He sat in it and had people lower it into the water so he could look at fish.