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TIL that the Dothraki language was designed to sound like Arabic to the untrained ear, or a mix between Spanish and Arabic to anyone who knows Arabic.

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lAp7 TIL “No kill shelters” need to achieve a >90% rate of live adoptions, and may still kill healthy animals as a matter of course.
ZpYM4 TIL People brought their kids to watch Alien in the theaters (many apparently thinking it was going to be something more akin to Star Wars)
89LP TIL that Christians introduced “Christian Power Cards” to compete with Pokemon due to the concept of ‘Pokemon Evolution’ going against the Biblical creation account in Genesis.
mMp TIL Patrick Stewart is a public advocate for “assisted suicide”
KOPbG TIL about Ivan Ivanovich, a mannequin that orbited Earth in 1961 just weeks before Yuri Gagarin's milestone spaceflight. Ivan's features were so lifelike that technicians wrote "model" on the forehead, so anyone finding the mannequin upon landing would not be confused.