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TIL “Scooby Doo’s” full name is “Scoobert Scooby Dooby Doo”

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JYNYQ TIL about the island of Poveglia. It was used to quarantine plague victims until their death and then turned into an mental hospital until 1968. Now it’s nothing but haunted.
p81Wp TIL that EVERY word you speak in your language will inevitably disappear or change their meaning in average 150 years. That's happening with every language last 1000 years. But there is a core of average 200 words that stay as a core of language and their meaning never change.
0dyvN TIL in 2011 a tiger at a Turkish zoo snuck its front paw through a narrow gap in a door and proceeded to kill the lion that resided in the adjacent cage by severing the lion's jugular vein with a single swipe of its paw.
78Lex TIL that identical twins have a unique DNA signature that lasts a lifetime, and scientists can now tell if someone was originally conceived as a twin.
OxkR TIL that black people with the lowest test scores have a better acceptance rate into med school than Asians with the highest test scores.