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TIL Ivan is just the Slavic variant of the name “John”

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neRD7 TIL There are actually 25 languages spoken among the population of 17.26 million in Guatemala. According to the Language Law of 2003, these 25 languages are recognized as officials. As a first and second language, Spanish is spoken by 93% of the population.
nWj7P TIL farmers collected the bones from major battlefields like the Battle of Waterloo and the Battle of Austerlitz to crush them and re-fertilize their depleted farm soil.
b6j04 TIL because the Arctic mammal the Pika doesn't hibernate, they must store food for winter by making hay piles. Pikas choose some plants that inhibit bacterial growth and act as a hay-pile preservatives
vPBDR TIL that the song “Gasolina" by Daddy Yankee was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."
eppaE TIL about William Cunningham a body snatcher in Ohio who responded to medical students playing a prank on him, by sending them a corpse which was diseased with the deadly and highly infectious smallpox.