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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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g6eb TIL Cheetos are designed specifically to melt in your mouth, tricking your brain into thinking they don’t contain calories, causing you to constantly crave more.
epZ8n TIL that close to half of the US population is projected to have obesity by the year 2030 (article is from 2019)
PYVpe TIL 4000 British troops sacrificed themselves and distract the German advance long enough for the evacuation of Dunkirk to be a success.
1DJ4 TIL that after an unsuccessful attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln’s body in 1874, workers were hired to place the coffin further underground. They could not find a suitable area at first, so they simply set the coffin on the ground and covered it with lumber, disguising it as a woodpile for two years.
PYD6n TIL that the 1st doctor to discover that doctors should wash their hands before performing surgery was ridiculed for suggesting that doctors were causing their own patients harm. He was ostracized and exiled from the medical community until his death.