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TIL about Gullah language - a English Creole spoken by the African American Gullah people with 300 fluent native speakers and 5000 semi-fluent speakers.

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neE47 TIL that in 2003, Dutchman Kees Moeliker won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology after writing a paper on "the first case of homosexual necrophilia [by a mallard]" after watching a duck die after crashing into his window, only for its corpse to be "raped almost continually for 75 mins" by another duck.
QBOk TIL Stanislav Petrov, made the decision not to fire at the United States after a faulty report from the Russian missile detection system that a nuke had been fired, what probably prevented WWIII
vPYxK TIL that notorious mobster Salvatore "Sammy the Bull" Gravano is now a podcaster
erkL TIL there is a rare fiber called Cervelt that is produced by New Zealand red deer and is softer than cashmere. Only 20 grams of this fiber can be collected yearly per deer and it is used to make luxury socks that cost $1,500 a pair.
wojYJ TIL that ELVES are a rare type of red lightning that involves red flashes with a radius of 350 km (220 mi) which only last for 0.001 second. They form when an electromagnetic pulse shoots upward and causes the nitrogen molecules to glow scarlet.