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TIL that places that end in -stan mean “places of” in Persian

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D1B7V TIL there is a new drug for treating schizophrenia that consists of being given a shot 4 times a year, making it the first successful medication of its kind that doesn’t require patients to take daily pills.
BmYD TIL that Clownfish change gender upon losing the female of the school, meaning that throughout the entire movie, Nemo’s dad was turning into a female…
nY9b TIL that the English idiom “It’s all Greek to me” exists in many other languages. However, in most cases, instead of Greek the language identified as unknown is most often Chinese.
jYDn TIL in 2010 the owner of Segway Inc. died after accidentally driving his Segway off a cliff.
M7Ba0 TIL that Takashi Yamazaki, the director of Godzilla: Minus One worked on the puppets used in the SNES Star Fox marketing