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TIL that contemporary britons seem to have forgotten all about "Splendid Isolation"

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RKxj TIL the Latin word “arena” means “sand” and we get it’s modern definition because Romans covered the colosseum floor with sand to absorb blood
nebbW TIL that if we cloned a dinosaur and let him lose, he’d probably be too out of breath to chase us, due to differences in oxygen levels.
Z8Mg4 TIL Hitchens's Razor: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence," a dictum coined by antitheist Christopher Hitchens.
OokR1 TIL that Voltaire's play "La Dépositaire" is based on a true story of Ninon de L'Enclos safeguarding a fortune during the French revolution. From Chapter VII of Life Letters and Epicurian Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos 1903. L'Enclos left 1000 francs for the education of Voltaire in her will!
x69e0 TIL Kalaallisut is the principal language used by all native Greenlanders and most of them are bilingual in Danish, and trilingual, with English. But in Nunavut, Canada, young Inuit prefer to use English and most cannot speak in Inuktitut about everyday life