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TIL there is no word for ‘love’ in the language of Luxembourg

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laaK TIL that Hitler had captured Stalin’s son as a prisoner of war and offered to exchange him with a German Marshal prisoner. Stalin responded “I will not trade a Marshal for a Lieutenant.”
DjP TIL There is a city in the Caspian Sea, 25 miles off the coast
awXAb TIL water is diamagnetic. If you have enough salt in the water and put a magnet near close by it, it will push the water.
KOZDR TIL William Still, the father of the Underground Railroad, interviewed and kept records of every escaped slave he came across. Once, while interviewing a man, he discovered that the man was actually his long-lost brother.
dDMgZ TIL that humanity has a 95% probability of going extinct by the year 10,000 AD according to Brandon Carter's formulationof the controversial Doomsday argument, which argues that half of the humans who will ever have lived have probably already been born.