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TIL There are fewer than nine Comanche speakers alive

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5YZAP TIL: Paris was strictly and island city in the Seine until nearly 1000 AD.
mEDx TIL the inspiration for the novel Fight Club came to Chuck Palahniuk after he got in a fight on vacation. When he returned back to work none of his coworkers would ask what happened.
0wrQy TIL that Singapore gained independence against its own will. Singapore was a part of Malaysia but because of disagreements with the city, the Malaysia parliament voted unanimously to kick them out against the cities will.
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8aLM4 TIL why "w" is pronounced double-u. The Roman alphabet did not have the letter"w" so when Latin was first used in Old English, they needed to invent a symbol for the sound made by "w" - so they made it "uu" (there was no "v" in Old English). 400 years later, Norman scribes conjoined it to become "w"