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TIL that ‘Brithenig’ is a constructed language made to show what English would be like if it had developed as a Romance language, like French or Spanish.

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ZpDda TIL that scientists believe the earliest known ancestor of humans (and many others), Saccorhytus, was about a millimeter in size and lived between grains of sand on the ocean floor 540 million years ago. It also had a very large mouth, but surprisingly no anus
8aG6V TIL in 1957, BBC pulled a April Fools prank by including a segment about spaghetti harvest in their news show Panorama, discussing how spaghetti is grown in fields in Switzerland. As a result, people phoned the BBC wanting to know how they could grow their own spaghetti tree.
wNk8 TIL an Ohio man bought 3 plots next to his wife and had his sons build a see-through plexiglass casket so that he could be buried sitting astride his custom-painted 1967 Electra Glide motorcycle.
78opX TIL you can die eating a diet of rabbits without another source of fat because they are so lean. It's called protein poisoning, aka Rabbit Starvation.
wLD88 Today I learned that you can press the button on smoke alarms to temporarily hush them. Good for when they go off while cooking