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TIL that only 20 different surnames comprise half the population of China, 3 surnames comprise half the population of Korea, and 3 belong to 60% of the Vietnamese.

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BKQK TIL the type of speech used by Kim Kardashian and other young women, dragging on the end of words is actually called “Vocal Fry”, and is considered a speech disorder amongst speech pathologists
Xdjj TIL Vietnam has the Largest Cave in the World, complete with its own River, Jungle and Climate.
OoQ8Y In a new study in Science, a team of linguists at the University of Zurich uses biomechanics and linguistic evidence to make the case that the rise of agriculture thousands of years ago increased the odds that populations would start to use sounds such as f and v. The idea is that agriculture introduced a range of softer foods into human diets, which altered how humans' teeth and jaws wore down with age in ways that made these sounds slightly easier to produce.
QJ95p TIL on the 3rd day of the 3rd month 1933 an earthquake at the 33rd parallel caused 3000 casualties in a Japanese area whose 30% of the population lives bundled up around one city.
loJMa TIL Elephants can suffer from PTSD and that their violent outbursts and can sometimes be managed with therapy