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TIL Golden Retrievers originated from Scotland

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6Eonm TIL that the reason we refer to people as redheads instead of more accurately as “orangeheads” is because both the fruit and the word to describe its color doesn’t enter the English language until the 1300’s.
69mnm TIL that even though the phonograph was invented in his lifetime there are no surviving recordings of Mark Twain's voice. However there is a recording of actor and former neighbor of Twain, William Gillette performing an imitation of Twain's voice, recorded in 1934.
BEkr TIL that the symbols and squiggles that are used to represent a bad word are called “grawlixes”
pYN7b TIL Scientists have been communicating with apes via sign language since the 1960s; apes have never asked one question.
LyQZ TIL Switzerland has enough underground shelter to house the entire country’s population… and then some.