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TIL about the Charition Mime, an ancient Greek play which is set in India and has many lines of dialogue in an unknown language. Scholars now think it is an ancient form of Kannada or Tulu.

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awy60 TIL that the famous mobster Al Capone sponsored a soup kitchen during the great depression. On average, his charity would feed about 2,200 Chicagoans 3 meals per day. No second helpings were denied. No questions were asked, and no one was asked to prove their need.
jN0mM TIL that the WWF'S Iron Sheik, whose shtick was to be pro Iranian and very anti-American (usually alongside Nikolai Volkoff in the 80s), had previously been an assistant coach on the U.S. National Wrestling Team during the Olympics.
DQL6P TIL the US got rid of seasonal clock changes in the 70s and everyone hated it and quickly went back to the clock changes.
Y71kd TIL that in 1984, a British grandmother made the world's first online at-home consumer purchase using her TV remote. She was ordering groceries from the local Tesco.
78Rdp TIL there are literal mountains of 'trashed', rentable bikes in china - with a lot of them looking like new