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TIL of the Bantu expansion, where Bantu people spread from modern day Cameroon to almost all of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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D1dEV TIL about Chi Chi --American Humane's hero dog of 2018. She lost nearly all four legs — and almost her life after being rescued from a trash bag inside a dumpster. Today, with the help of two sets of prosthetic paws, she uses her sweet demeanor to assist others as a certified therapy dog.
5QZk TIL children who speak Mandarin are far more likely to develop perfect pitch because of tone association with words, and that one word can have up to four different meanings depending on the pitch at which it is spoken.
LkKjr TIL of the Citadel of Erbil, a mound continuously inhabited since 5000 BC. In 2007 all inhabiants were temporarily evicted to conduct a restoration project, except for a single family, who was allowed to stay as to not break the continuous habitation record.
neQ7o TIL that Alexander Graham Bell tried to teach his dog to talk
GYWQE TIL that Edsger W. Dijkstra, the famous Dutch computer science pioneer, when asked about his job during his marriage rite in 1957, answered as "programmer" but the municipal authorities did not accept it on the grounds that there was no such profession