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TIL that nearly 40% of Americans expressed a negative opinion of "Wisian-Americans"—a fictitious group—in a survey about social attitudes that was conducted by the General Social Survey, a project of the National Science Foundation.

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wj57 TIL that there is still one US soldier that is being held captive by insurgents in Afghanistan and has been so since 2009. Release efforts to free him have currently stalled.
e0WvD TIL Chinese Pidgin English. Used for 200 years in Chinese ports, the language mix Chinese syntax and English words creating a grammar like: "Chinese man very great rogue truly, but have fashion, no can help". Some expressions were introduced back into English: "Long time no see"; "No money no talk".
xQD TIL after WWII, the Allies conducted a massive ‘ethnic cleansing’ of German-speaking citizens from certain areas, resulting in app. 500,000 civilian deaths., some as slave laborers in Auschwitz and Theresienstadt, which were kept in operation.
dGej TIL the slowest musical piece in history, As SLow aS Possible (ASLSP) by John Cage, is currently being played for the next 639 years. It started 2001 and the last note change was in 2013.
b6g10 TIL that Sigmund Freud in 1935, the founder of psychoanalysis, refused to "treat" homosexuality, stating that it could not be classified as an illness