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TIL that the English word “black” has the same origins as the French “blanc” and Spanish “blanco” meaning white.

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xoMB TIL that when a Hun leader died warriors would slash their cheeks to “cry blood” in mourning.
YpEAP TIL Jane Kuria and 2 of her 3 children were beaten to death (the son survived) in their home in Boston. They were a family from Kenya who were fleeing female genital mutilation and they were at the time embroiled in the appeals process of asylum. Noone knows who did it.
9OgX TIL: All disabled toilets in the UK use the same key and all disabled people are entitled to a copy of it.
d8yEE TIL Dogs can understand upto a 1000 human words. They can differentiate between nouns. and verbs. More importantly Dogs also feel emotions love, jealousy etc which was previously thought to be only present in primates. They can even read people better than chimps one of our closest genetic neighbour
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