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TIL that the last letter added to the alphabet was J

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eM9E TIL deaf babies engage in “fingerbabble” that mimics the verbal babbling of their hearing peers. When raised around signing parents, they start forming repetitive, rudimentary sign shapes w/ their hands that resemble monosyllabic verbal babbles
4kypR TIL that following 9/11, ClearChannel internally released a list of songs that were deemed inappropriate to play live, including ( among others ) Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly, or Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
VMWj0 TIL that in Italy the installation of a bidet in a bathroom has been mandatory since 1975
GAl91 TIL about Empires of the Deep, an $130 million mermaid movie from 2011 that's never been released
x60w TIL Pablo Picasso was going to brothels by the age of 13.