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TIL that Sir Terry Pratchett wrote lines for an Oblivion mod

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XEE9r TIL The expression "Bless you!" goes back to the times of the plague, since sneezing was often the first sign that someone was falling ill with the plague and the blessing was supposed to protect the sneezer
w1l6 TIL King James IV put twin babies on an island to see if the children would speak the language of Eden. Children developed a communication method but the experiment failed because no one else knew what language of Eden sounded like.
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YZ0Z TIL in 2006, Bank of America had someone jailed for inquiring about the legitimacy of a check. The uproar cost BoA $50 million worth of withdrawals from irate customers.