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TIL of Poto and Cabengo, aka Grace and Virginia Kennedy, a pair of twins who were so socially distanced and ignored by their parents that they developed their own unique language that only they understood.

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9wLlD TIL Kallanai Dam is The Oldest Dam in the World Still in Use
8eA9K TIL Ethiopia acquired 3 Electric Chairs for capital punishment, but did not have enough reliable electricity to use them in practice. 2 of the chairs were converted to become garden furniture, the remaining was used by their Emperor as a throne.
OolKe TIL: That in the late 1800s they used to put fake horse heads on the front of automobiles as to not spook the actual horses in traffic.
Y7jvA Til about the Chinese idiom "Point at a deer saying it's a horse". An intentionally blatent lie that was originally devised as a loyalty test and now is used to describe gaslighting.
wOp6 TIL all mammals have around one billion heartbeats in their lifetime