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TIL place names in the ancient Korean kingdom of Goguryeo resemble Japanese. This has led scholars to hypothesize a Japonic language related to Japanese was once spoken in Korea.

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Y7k6A TIL on March 15, 2011, 51-year-old William Melchert-Dinkel went online under screen names like "Cami" and "Falcongirl" encouraging people to commit suicide. Those who were interested he would instruct them step by step. He admitted to assisting in the deaths of 5 people but was only convicted for 2.
PQ8g TIL that NASA engineers once asked Sally Ride if 100 tampons was enough for a 7 day mission
Z174 TIL Robot is Czech for serf labor and Asimov was the first to use the word Robotics
nWe7B TIL the Sun is not a mass of incandescent Gas, it’s a miasma of incandescent Plasma
PJ5J TIL that a nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki instead of Kyoto partly because the Secretary of War at the time had his honeymoon there and admired it too much.