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TIL that in Iceland, the phonebook is sorted by first names because everyone’s surname is basically their father’s first name followed by -son or -dottir

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4Qro TIL there’s a group of tribes in the Amazon that’s so linguistically diverse that having a spouse that speaks the same language as you is considered a kind of incest.
OGVK6 TIL that winter term graduates at Middlebury College in Vermont ski down a mountain into their own graduation ceremony
oBRpK TIL: Paul Ree, friend of Nietzsche, died by falling into a gorge, which some believe may have been suicide
OoYM6 TIL that using sign language, a caretaker communicated female chimp that her own baby died, to which the female chimp signed back "CRY" "touching her cheek and drawing her finger down the path a tear would make on a human" (chimps can't shed tears)
rNlj1 TIL when were less than 5,000 Europeans in the large Louisiana area of New France before 1724, hundreds of good women, and also separately hundreds of criminal women were sent to Louisiana because of a shortage of women.