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TIL in Nigeria there is a village where men and women speak a different language.

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xRgB TIL that China harvests the internal organs of detained prisoners, including Tibetans, underground Christians, and practicioners of the peaceful Falun Gong spiritual movement.
dDLZQ TIL: In 1904, a man survived falling over Niagara Falls without a barrel, becoming the first recorded unprotected fall survivor.
GVrN TIL that in the early 1900s oyster fishermen in Narragansett Bay tried to eliminate starfish that were preying on their oysters. Whenever they encountered starfish, they chopped them up with their knives and threw them back into the water. As a result, the sea star population increased explosively.
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