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TIL English used to be a grammatically gendered language with nouns being treated as masculine, feminine, or neuter.

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Lrxv TIL that in the poorest areas of Africa, people wave oiled-up pans in the air, so that Midge Flies stick to it. After catching enough bugs, they are scraped off and cooked into a meatball. Catching the flies with the pan is very entertaining for the kids in the village.
R7ABj TIL Alexander Hamilton, a Scottish politician, had such a strong interest in Ancient Egyptian mummies that he arranged for his own body to be mummified and placed in a sarcophagus after his death.
N7RoJ TIL in 1907 the "Irish Crown Jewels" were stolen from a safe in a Dublin Castle, and have never been recovered.
b6oBa TIL that from 2000 to 2020 the world’s wealth more than tripled, going from $440 trillion to $1,540 trillion.
Oojv7 TIL about Albert Gonzalez an American computer hacker and computer criminal who is accused of masterminding the combined credit card theft and subsequent reselling of more than 170 million card and ATM numbers from 2005 to 2007: the biggest such fraud in history.