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TIL there's a people and a language called Anāl

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9AQQ TIL that in 2006 PETA killed 2,981 pets and only 12 were adopted and in 2008 the Centre for Consumer Freedom petitioned to have PETA reclassified as a ‘slaughterhouse’
wLab8 TIL that "bull," meaning falsehood or nonsense, predates "bullshit" by centuries, and has no etymological connection to the word for male cattle.
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