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TIL Many western scholars were fond of the Khmer Rouge and some denied or still deny the atrocities committed by them

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kRag TIL, Frodo had the ring for 17 years before going on his quest instead of the handful of days the movie shows.
aj8b TIL French fashion designer, Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel (1883 –1971), along with being anti-semitic, homophobic, and addicted to morphine, was a spy for the Third Reich.
6x1X TIL there’s a condition called “Hero Syndrome,” where people will search for heroism/recognition by deliberately creating a situation for themselves to resolve. This is known to affect civil servants such as firefighters, nurses, and police.
ADE8B TIL of "Zonal" languages. Zonals are like universal languages but for a specific language family. Slavic, Germanic, and Romance languages would all have their own "Zonal" designed using familiar rules/logic/alphabet/etc. The goal is promoting greater regional cohesion in a language zone.
P17jw TIL that a US Vice-President wrote a pop song