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TIL The Finnish and the Hungarian language are related since they're both Ural languages

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Egmbw Today I learned that every Sturgeon caught in British waters has to be offered to the reigning monarch.
NXPe TIL a supply specialist in the Korean War didn’t know the code word for mortar rounds and sent crates full of Tootsie Rolls to Marines in need of mortar rounds
XE80D TIL Cruella almost made a return as the main villain in 1972s The Rescuers and concept art was even drew up for it
VBMb0 TIL that the 1972 videogame Pong by Atari, which was the first commercially successful videogame in history, was built entirely from analog circuitry. In other words, it didn’t make use of a single line of code
vPZMD TIL carrots were originally cultivated for their leaves and seeds