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TIL Malagasy, the national and co-official language of Madagascar, belongs to the Austronesian language family, primarily spoken in Southeast Asia, and does not originate from Africa. The ancestors of the Malagasy people migrated to Madagascar around 1,500 years ago.

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0Kg1 TIL that when general Lee surrendered at the end of the Civil War he saw that Grant’s military secretary, Ely Parker, was a Seneca Indian and said: “ I am glad to see one real American here.” To which Parker responded : “We are all Americans”.
golD TIL Pixar animators working to finish Toy Story 2 had such a heavy workload that many chose to work long hours even though Pixar discouraged it. Animators developed carpal tunnel syndrome, and one even forgot he had left his baby in the backseat of his car all day.
QJoPd TIL that electricity does not take the path of least resistance, but takes all paths available (in inverse proportion to the impedance of the paths)
16J4d TIL in 1839, Charles Goodyear accidentally invented Vulcanization when he dropped some rubber in a flying pan
X9kP TIL in 2008 a Texas man tried to make his suicide look like a murder by tying helium balloons to the gun so it would float away and look like someone else had done it. The investigator was able to solve the case after he obtained a copy of an October 2003 episode of CSI showing a similar hoax