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TIL of Ladino, an amalgamation of Hebrew and Old Spanish spoken by some of the descendants of Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain.

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wj8 TIL in 2008 a Texas schoolgirl was thrown off the cheerleading team for refusing to cheer “put it in” for a football player who raped her.
Wm6L TIL the world’s oldest piece of taxidermy is a stuffed crocodile hanging from the rafters of a small Italian church. It’s at least 500 years old, and nobody is sure where it came from.
Wkgmo TIL no deaths are necessary for the crime of genocide to have been committed.
9wPeD TIL that despite having a 95% Muslim population, Christmas is an extremely popular holiday in the west African nation of Senegal, which has a tradition of Muslims and Christians adopting each other's holidays
p89pZ TIL Augustus Caesar is estimated at having a net worth of $4.6 trillion because he “personally owned all of Egypt”