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TIL the Aboriginal Mbabaram word for dog is “dog”. This type of coincidence is called a “false cognate” and there are many occurrences throughout the world.

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R5xGQ TIL that Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass are both buried in the same cemetery in Rochester, New York.
eb4 TIL the mold in blue cheese is Penicillium
b9v07 TIL between 1972 and 2018 the world population has doubled to nearly 8 billion, there were only 2.6 billion people in the world in 1951.
D1ev TIL before syphilis had a name, it had been called the “French disease” in Italy, Poland and Germany; the “Italian disease” in France; the “Spanish disease” in the Netherlands; the “Polish disease” in Russia; the “Christian disease” in Turkey; and the “British Disease” in Tahiti.
98yM TIL that Eva Vertes discovered an important compound that stops the death of brain cells, a crucial step in a cure for Alzheimer’s, when she was 17