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TIL that the nose in this face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), is the clicking noise in African languages.

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16VYr TIL that in the year 301, a stonemason was falsely accused of being a woman’s estranged husband. He allegedly fled up a mountain, built a monastery, and lived as a hermit. The isolated mountain community has been self-governing ever since, and is now the modern nation of San Marino.
4kgko TIL Around 5,300 kids were killed at school due to the 2008 earthquake in China
GYMdN TIL James Cagney in the 1932 film 'Taxi' is famous not only for Cagney's dancing, it's also the first film where he refused to be shot at with live ammo. This was very common at the time, due to it being much cheaper to use than blanks.
jx8n TIL The Golden Temple of India feeds over 100,000 people a day no matter who they are, where they come from, or their race.
8eL0a TIL the "S" in "Harry S. Truman" wasn't an abbreviation. The dude's middle name was literally just the letter S.