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TIL Tajik is a Persian language written in Cyrillic script

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xVK4g TIL about the 'thousand-yard stare', which is a phrase often used to describe the blank, unfocused gaze of soldiers who have become emotionally detached from the horrors around them. It is also sometimes used more generally to describe the look of dissociation among victims of other types of trauma.
yXOJ TIL Heineken developed squared beer bottles to be used as bricks. The plan was to eliminate waste on beaches and provide building materials to the Caribbean market.
oAPA TIL Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods was once homeless in NYC and would steal purses to afford his drug habit.
xKnk TIL According to Herodotus a corrupt judge accepted a bribe and delivered an unjust verdict. Cambyses II of Persia had him arrested and flayed alive. His skin was then used to cover the seat in which his son would sit in judgment.
XELNR TIL Before the Civil War, Syria experienced five years of severe drought