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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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W7yXA TIL around 400,000 gladiators died in the Colosseum.
yVyEl TIL about Behind Closed Doors, a book of pornographic SpongeBob drawings created by Nickelodeon storyboard artists. "The illustrations...contain scenarios such as SpongeBob masturbating, Mr. Krabs defecating into a toilet, and Squidward Tentacles 'reimagined as a sentient penis with tentacles.'"
lowO1 TIL: 90% of U.S. Dollar bills contain traces of cocaine. In Washington, D.C., cocaine was found on 95% of the banknotes analyzed.
gMwA8 TIL that a B-25 Mitchell crashed into the side of the Empire State Building resulting in 14 deaths. Cause of the crash was zero visibility due to heavy fog
XlMr TIL in 2009, an abusive litigant sued a man for $30k for selling him a $40 printer on Craigslist, claiming it was broken. The case lasted for 6½ years and, as of 2016, may still be on-going.