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TIL that Juneau, the capital of Alaska, is only accessible by air and sea.

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5YPMP TIL of Loulis, a chimp who learned to communicate trought sign languange, but he wasn't taught by humans: he learned the signs from his adoptive mother, Washoe, the first chimp to ever learn sign languange
4Jmo TIL after days of hiding it from the world, Soviet was forced to acknowledge the Chernobyl disaster after an engineer at a power plant 1000miles away in Sweden surprisingly noticed radiation on his shoes on his way INTO the plant. They traced the wind patterns and reported the location of the source
d8oN7 TIL that “discotheque” means "library of phonograph records" in French; the term gradually came to refer to clubs where records were the norm, rather than a band. In the early 1960s, the word came into use in the United States, frequently shortened to “disco.”
MaOK TIL the first UK same-sex marriage in prison consist of two men who are in prison for homophobic motivated murders.
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