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TIL the sign language interpreter at Nelson Mandela’s funeral was accused of being a ‘fake’, as he made meaningless hand gestures that did not reflect established signs.

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nWlj7 TIL Often truncated, Oppenheimer's fuller quote was "I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'"
D1ldj TIL that Alexandria (Egypt) came to be regarded as the capital of knowledge and learning, in part because of the Great Library. It was unprecedented due to the scope and scale. According to popular description, an inscription above the shelves read: "The place of the cure of the soul."
R5pVj TIL: 1962: At a school in present-day Tanzania, three girls experience an extremely contagious fit of laughter. Classes are canceled for months.
wyBE TIL the groove in the middle of your top lip is called a Philtrum. It’s where your face fused together when you developed in the womb.
BgLJk TIL that red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. Red sky at night, sailors’ delight.