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TIL There are fewer than nine Comanche speakers alive

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dx5d TIL walking barefoot leads to healthier feet (reduces rate of osteoarthritis & athlete’s foot; improved foot strength, flexibility & mobility) [pdf]
4XB0g TIL of Yasuke, an African who was the first foreign born samurai in Japan. He arrived in the country in 1579 with some Jesuit missionaries. He arose to become a confidant to Oda Nobunga. When he first came, hundreds of Japanese people turned out to see him; they’d never seen a black person before.
8aQZX TIL about the Jason voorhes statue chined to the bottom of Minnesota lake
r0g1 TIL The sailing stones that were inexplicably pushing themselves around and leaving trails in the desert have had their movement explained. A perfect combination of weather conditions cause huge yet thin ice sheets to push them around.
xA05 TIL In 1996, a woman committed suicide in a cemetary wearing headphones, having listened to a cassette tape of Mel Brooks; an 8 inch Christmas tree, Jeff Foxworthy & Monty Python tapes in her bag, wearing DNR medic bracelet with a suicide note signed -Jane Doe