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TIL that the Space Jam website is still active, and hasn’t been touched since ‘96!

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GYeM4 TIL that the BBC publishes in the informal oral language of Nigerian Pidgin, which is spoken by ~75mil people across Nigeria and neighbouring countries, but due to its informality and variety of dialects does not currently have an agreed written form.
LwQ9 TIL some of the first German Soldiers captured at Normandy on D-Day were actually Korean. They had been pressed into service by the Japanese, captured by the Soviets, then captured by the Germans, then captured by the Americans.
QJkr9 TIL the male jumping spider goes through an incredible ritual of dancing, vibratory singing and other bizarre motions to attract a female. If the female is not impressed, she eats them.
bxWj TIL that in Game of Thrones, when Daenerys arrives at Meereen, a champion sent to insult her is actually saying a French taunt from Monthy Python and the Holy Grail in Valyrian
R5NWa TIL that Z is the most common consonant in Polish.