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TIL that Although they are languages from different cultures, Icelandic (spoken in Iceland) and Bengali (spoken in Bangladesh and India) are part of the same family (Indo-European).

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j6gbp today I learned about the home children from the uk sent to australia and canada as indentured servants and abused
vnLj TIL The wife of Communist Romania’s leader (Elena Ceaușescu) was barely literate but was able to obtain a PhD in Chemistry from plagiarism.
8eRVP TIL of the 'Fry and Turnbull effect' on prostate cancer in the UK. In 2008 news presenter Bill Turnbull and broadcaster Stephen Fry both had a prostate cancer diagnosis and urged other men to come forward for help. It caused a 36% increase in patients receiving treatment the following year.
wdd6 TIL Tobacco has been cultivated for so long that it no longer grows naturally in the wild.
b6DY0 TIL there have been MANY cases of "elephant lynching", or the killing of an elephants for spectacle with pseudo-legal or performative aspects, in the United States