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TIL that 707,088 people in the 1931 Polish census were recorded as speaking 'local', rather than any recognized language.

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pyBN TIL between 1949 and 1952, The White House was completely gutted, leaving only the outer walls around a shell. The mansion was then rebuilt using concrete and steel beams in place of its original wooden joists
NXbdM TIL that in 2016, France legislated a Food Waste Law that bans supermarkets from wasting unsold food. It mandates that supermarkets must compost their leftover produce, or donate the goods to charity.
xV405 TIL - In 2016 after a video essay by Every Frame a Painting criticised the music in the Marvel franchise as being 'unmemorable'. Marvel acknowledge the video and sought to improve their scores, with Mark Mothersbaugh paving the way in Thor: Ragnarok (2017) the following year.
rnly TIL the engineer of the Kalka-Shimla Railway in India killed himself after miscalculation of where two halves of a tunnel would meet
10nP TIL scaphism was a form of ancient punishment where the victim was tied and force-fed a rich diet of honey and milk, and then left in the sun. He developed diarrhea, while his accumulated excretions attracted flies and insects who then fed upon the victim’s exposed flesh.