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TIL that the Dothraki and Valyrian languages in A Game of Thrones are heard by more people than Welsh, Irish Gaelic and Scots Gaelic combined.

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OGLJ7 TIL that Konrad Schumann, the subject of the famous photo of a soldier escaping communist East Berlin to the capitalist West, went to visit his family in former East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. They rejected him, considering him a traitor, and he committed suicide several years later.
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