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TIL Wild Horses ARE North American Natives

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Z8XrD TIL that standard QWERTY keyboards are used in China. Chinese users are familiar with the sounds that Latin letters make, and they type in the way their characters sound when spoken out loud. Software then translates the sound they typed into a Chinese character.
dD9YQ TIL Franz Kafka held a lifelong belief that other people found him mentally and physically repulsive. In reality, many who met him found him to be handsome, intelligent, and possessing a good sense of humor.
DO9Y TIL that “Karma” in the way most people use and know it as is not actually Karma. Karma is something to be inherited in the next life, not in this current life, according to Buddhist philosophy.
4XVYa TIL that an anonymous Brit drew penises around potholes in Manchester to force authorities to stop delaying fixing them. It worked
BgdrL TIL of Nicholas Alahverdian, a criminal who after committing various crimes became an incel leader, claimed to be the victim of libel, disappeared for 4 years, faked lymphoma and then his death, then eventually moved to Scotland and faked being a professor. He was arrested in the hospital with covid