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TIL Canal France International accidentally broadcasted 30 minutes of porn to Saudi Arabia… instead of a children’s programme.

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16EeD TIL that the Wichita language, once spoken by the Wichita people of Oklahoma, went extinct in 2016 when its last fluent speaker, Doris McLemore, passed away.
vQEL TIL that as a 2.5 year old girl, Michelle Funk fell into a creek and was submerged for 66 minutes. When rescuers arrived she didn’t have pulse and was not breathing. 3+ hours after that, her blood was warmed. When it reached 77 degrees F. she came back to life and is still living to this day.
ZWLa TIL that a parrot named “Alex” was the very first (and only) non-human animal to ask an existential question. He asked what color he was, and learned that he was gray.
aay9 TIL that the world’s first programmers were women, a fact that took 50 years to be recognised.
MWbV TIL Democritus supposed the existence of atoms and the empty space between them in 400BC