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

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N7AjJ TIL of an unusual death at the Condor Club, San Francisco in 1983. Bouncer Jimmy Ferrozzo and his girlfriend Theresa Hill were having sex on the club's famous white piano which descended from the ceiling via cables. They accidentally hit the 'on' switch and the piano ascended, asphyxiating Ferrozzo.
GryE TIL 8% of those who identify as atheists also say they believe in God or a universal spirit, even though the literal definition of “atheist” is “a person who believes that God does not exist”
yVPyv TIL that the American expression "boondocks" comes from the Tagalog word bundók (mountain)
vMeR TIL that when a school shooter killed 5 amish girls at an amish school, the amish community responded by starting a charity fund for the family of the shooter.
VBYkm TIL of mad honey, the hallucinogenic product of certain asian honeybees that eat rhododendrons,