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TIL The last letter to be added to our alphabet was “J.”

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j6nEp TIL Śmigus-dyngus or Dyngus Day is a celebration held on Easter Monday across Central Europe and in Polish Diaspora communities. Traditionally, boys throw water over girls on Easter Monday among other rituals. In some regions they strike them with pussy willow branches instead of sprinkling water.
J1nLm TIL the belief that the two disasters involving the De Havilland Comet were caused by square passenger windows is a myth. The two planes involved actually used rectangular windows with rounded edges; and the "square windows" is actually the square cut-out for the ADF Antenna above the cockpit.
ykbw TIL that in the 1924 Tour de France, riders used cocaine and chloroform as performance enhancing drugs.
rNNoo TIL Mau Piailug can be credited with keeping traditional wayfinding alive for the indigenous peoples of Oceania
NXyQ1 TIL Antarctica has its own English accent, with over 200 words for different types of ice.