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TIL the Persian New Year (Nowruz) is celebrated on the Spring Equinox.

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B66K TIL winter lasts 21 years on Uranus.
kgDB TIL that children start lying as young as age two, but a child who starts lying at a young age is more cognitively advanced than a child who starts lying art an older age.
90D7 TIL that Benito Mussolini drove his secret first wife and son to early deaths in lunatic asylums because they threatened his rise to power. His henchmen then tried to erase all traces of their relationship.
78EjP TIL of Burushaski - a language isolate predominantly from Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. It has 4 genders - human masculine, human feminine, countable objects, and uncountable ones (similar to mass nouns)
ANvg TIL that nearly every top McDonald’s monopoly prize from 1995-2000 was fraudulently won by a group of insiders