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TIL undelivered letters from 313AD were discovered in the ruins of a NW Chinese watchtower—one is from a desperate Sogdian (ancient central Asian people) woman named Miwnay, addressed to her husband who brought her to China & left. She & her daughter, now poor, then became servants in a Chinese home

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gmaD TIL The term “86” has no official etymology, but it has a couple of plausible origins, including a reference to standard graves being typically dug 8 feet long, and 6 feet deep.
VMG5B TIL the coconut is classified as a drupe, or a dry drupe. Under loose definitions, coconut can also be considered a fruit, a nut, and a seed.
N5DM TIL in Chicago over the last decade more Americans have been murdered than have been killed in Afghanistan.
xVm1 TIL that in ancient Greece throwing an apple at someone was considered a marriage proposal.
5nND TIL that in the USA, possession of child pornography often results in a harsher sentence than actually molesting a child would