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TIL Queen Victoria was fluent in Urdu and Hindi.

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PGew TIL that it is illegal to NOT flush the toilet in Singapore. For failing to flush, you will be fined $150, and police officers have been known to check…
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D1yr TIL there was an epidemic of Satanic ritual abuse across America in the 1980s that turned out to be completely imagined. People were recalling memories of sexual abuse and cannibalism that never occurred.