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TIL the people of Buganda, in Uganda, speak Luganda.

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Q6d6 TIL about Tarrare, a slender French man who lived in the 1700s. He had a bizarrely insatiable appetite which could never be satisfied. While under medical observation, he would eat everything he could find like cats, snakes and corpses. He was even suspected of eating a toddler.
x6oVg TIL somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean are the Disappointment Islands. Named by John Byron in 1765, because he found the natives to be hostile towads him.
XEWQX TIL the smallest skeletal muscle in the human body is the Stapedius muscle, which is about one millimeter (0.04 inch) in length. Its purpose is, amazingly enough, to "stabilize the smallest bone in the body, the stapes or strirrup bone of the middle ear."
MeZ8K TIL that the hardened, outer wing on beetles is called Elytra
R7RQ TIL that some Japanese soldiers refused to accept that WWII ended until as late as 1972, and even then, had to be convinced by their lieutenant.