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TIL the Hindenburg disaster was only the fifth deadliest airship disaster of all time.

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wonlW TIL that Africa is home to more than 2,000 languages including more than 500 in Nigeria alone
oBEAo TIL a Mellified man is a person mummified in honey. They would often eat honey till they died, buried in honey, dug up a century later to be eaten for medicinal purposes
vPb7B TIL that the Arctic Circle is moving northward approximately 48 feet per year.
698A7 TIL the notion that separate New York City borough accents exist is false. Linguists are in agreement that there is no empirical evidence of systematic differences in NYC English across NYC’s five boroughs. There is no purely geographical variation in speech patterns that occur within NYC.
0Jx5 TIL Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet President, starred in a Pizza Hut commercial.