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TIL that the originally Irish name prefix “Mc” means “son” and “O’” means “descendant of”

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KOB9B TIL of the systematic destruction of the Armenian cemetery at Julfa. In response to charges from Armenia and various international organisations and despite overwhelming evidence of their involvement, the Azerbaijani government insisted that the cemetery and the monuments within had never existed.
0LP5 TIL the oldest living vertebrate is the Greenland Shark, which is estimated to be about 400 years old-though could be as old as 512
VMZmm TIL that Pamelyn Ferdin, the child actress who voiced Fern in Charlotte's Web (1973), became an animal right's activist as an adult, echoing the convictions of Fern
yeja TIL that the velociraptor sounds in Jurassic Park are actually the sounds of mating tortoises recorded at Marine World
rRWBy TIL that two out of three French Canadians are descended from just 800 women, the so-called "Filles du Roi" [Daughters of the King], who were mostly poor women, many of them orphans, imported into New France between 1663 and 1673.