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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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7KJO TIL of the “Turnspit Dog” a now extinct dog that was short-legged, long-bodied and bred to run on a wheel that would turn meat over a fire. They were also used as foot warmers in church and Queen Victoria kept retired turnspit dogs as pets.
vPvNL TIL of the Pareto principle, that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the "vital few")
P1ZLZ TIL in the US there is a 1 in 93 chance you will die in a motor vehicle crash in your lifetime
Wnp8 TIL that Yisrael Kristal, due to being unable to do so at age 13 because of WW I, celebrated his bar mitzvah one hundred years later at age 113 in 2016.
l7lMA TIL a grieving mother from India had twins through surrogacy using her dead son's semen.