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TIL in 1850s British explorer Sir Richard Burton called Somalis superstitious for believing mosquitos caused malaria

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0ExR TIL in his will George Bernard Shaw provided for a competition to invent an alphabet better suited to the English language than the Roman alphabet. The resulting alphabet is called the Shavian alphabet and is supported by Unicode.
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xnwB TIL that the peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on earth with top speeds reaching up to 220 mph.
5Y568 TIL the Ku Klux Klan has held demonstrations at Dolly Parton’s theme park because of her annual Gay Day