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TIL Sard, the language spoken on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, is much nearer Classical Latin than any other surviving Romance language.

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jNXvv TIL JFK's father Joseph Kennedy made much of his fortune through insider trading. FDR later made him chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. When asked why he appointed a crook, FDR replied, "set a thief to catch a thief." Kennedy proceeded to outlaw the practices that made him rich.
vPpeB TIL about The Lady Killer, which was the biggest box office bomb ever in Indian Cinema. It had a budget of 45 crore rupees (53M USD) and grossed only 70000 rupees (8.3k USD
Wkkld TIL In 2006, The FBI planted an informant pretending to be a radical Muslim in a mosque, and the Muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI.
d8RXZ TIL In 2012, The City Of Brussels Erected A Life-Sized Statue of Jean Claude Van Damme.
JpmV TIL that Michael Jordan still earns a reported $60 million a year from Nike