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TIL The Maori word for France is Wīwī - a play on the French 'oui, oui'

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R57jl TIL about the Financial Modeling World Cup, which is essentially the World Cup for Competitive excel users. Participants solve real-life case studies by building financial models in Microsoft Excel. $25,000 prize fund.
VZG8 TIL that it took about 40 years for Poland’s population to return to its 1939 level.
0wGxL TIL The 1958 Latin Translation of Winnie the Pooh, Winnie ille Pu, became the first and only book ever published in Latin to make it to the New York Times Bestseller List.
AW5B TIL paleontological research shows that the part of the human brain that controls hearing and our sense of smell shrank around the same time as we began to domesticate dogs.
KAM6 TIL: In Old English, males were referred to as, “wer” and the word, “man” meant strictly humankind.