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TIL the Mbabram (a formally isolated and now extinct Australian Aboriginal language) used the word “dog” to mean “dog”. The word evolved completely independently of the English one out of pure coincidence and the two are in no way related.

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no7B TIL that four boys and a dog set out on an adventure in Dordogne, France. When the boys decided to explore the hole, they slid into a deep underground chamber where they discovered the most famous cave paintings in the world- the Lascaux Cave Paintings.
KOVaB TIL that Barnard Castle is an ancient monument in County Durham, England. It has been besieged multiple times, and was a favoured residence of Richard III during the Wars of the Roses.
69MDY TIL that Aretha Franklin's handwritten will was found in a spiral notebook wedged between couch cushions months after she died, but a court ruled it was valid
XEpKX TIL actor Joaquin Phoenix got into a traffic accident which flipped over his car, but was rescued by a random passerby who first calmly snatched away Phoenix's cigarette lighter right before it lit up the leaking gas tank. The passerby was Werner Herzog.
OGJKY TIL about the medical "interventions," more accurately experiments on "prisoners" in British India for malaria, cholera, typhoid, & plague. In one incident, Muslim prisoners fasting for Ramadan were forcibly given weekly doses of quinine for malaria treatments.