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TIL: Nazis massacred the entire town of Oradour-sur-Glane, which France never rebuilt and instead kept as a memorial

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yVdNl TIL about Nicaraguan Sign Language. A form of sign language which developed spontaneously among deaf school children in Nicaragua in the 1980's. It is not based on any other existing language and is considered by linguists to be an entirely new language.
E1l5x TIL James Hong has been in EVERYTHING - he has over 600 credits, probably more than any other actor in history!
W99B TIL There is an open-source social networking and sharing platform that is decentralized like TOR, has distributed file sharing like BitTorrent, and is “hardly possible to monitor from an external point of view”. It also has built in VoIP for voice chat.
OokQg TIL that Aaron Sorkin would take 6-8 showers a day and putting on new clothes after each shower, to 'get a fresh start' when writing didn't go to well.
XOgX TIL there is a slang term for plastic bags which are caught in trees and bushes: witches’ knickers.