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TIL Toki Pona is a language created by Sonja Lang that presents around 120 words.

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GAMoJ TIL about fumi-e (meaning "stepping on a picture"), a representation of Jesus used by the Tokugawa shogunate in 17th century Japan to weed out suspected Christians. Those who hesitated or refused to step on fumi-e were tortured or killed.
1lVd TIL that a Chinese businessman is offering poor and destitute Americans 300$ to have lunch with him
BrgVr It’s happened before. In 1982, Angela Cavallo lifted a 1964 Chevy Impala off her teenage son, Tony, who was working on the car’s suspension when the jacks failed and the car fell on him.
DQBWY TIL Mr. T stopped wearing virtually all his gold, one of his identifying marks, after helping with the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said, "I felt it would be insensitive and disrespectful to the people who lost everything, so I stopped wearing my gold.”
OokO4 TIL about The Tomb of the Whipping, an etruscan tomb dated to approximately 490 BC and named after a fresco of two men who flog a woman in an erotic context