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TIL that a language dies every 14 days

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LQlZm TIL about the city of Palmanova in Italy, that is a 9-pointed star-shaped fortress town that took 200 years to build from 1593 under the Venetian Republic to 1813 under the Napoleonic domination and it's included in UNESCO’s World Heritage Site list
epZrE TIL Spongebob Squarepants is credited for creating wider awareness of Leif Erikson Day outside the Norwegian-American community
oVj7 TIL during the Cold War the RCMP developed and used a “fruit machine” which measured pupil dilation in relation to pics of men and women to determine whether someone was gay.
6E1w TIL the gender symbols (♂ ,♀ ) represent a shield and a spear for male, and a mirror for female.
LlLp TIL NASA plans to lasso an asteroid and drag it to the moon for astronauts to walk on.