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TIL Queen Victoria was fluent in Urdu and Hindi.

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J1Wpm TIL that you shouldn’t eat raw taro leaves… but in case you do by accident then a local home remedy is drinking hot tamarind water
5YwoB TIL Greg Ham, the flautist and founding member of the band Men at Work, died of an overdose following a bout of depression sustained from losing a plagiarism lawsuit from copyright trolls. His crime: using part of the children's nursery rhyme "Kookaburra" on his solo in the song "Down Under"
9YoWp TIL Finland has the best education system in the world. The focus is on hiring the best teachers who must have a master's degree and all schools are funded through the government thus private schools are rare.
7roWP TIL: While training for his role in "Django Unchained", Christoph Waltz fell off a horse and broke his pelvis. When he returned to the shoot, Jamie Foxx gave him a gift to make him feel secure: a saddle with a seatbelt.
7rEgp TIL Supercharged blood helps some dolphins dive 1,000 meters