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TIL South Korea sells "mini studying rooms" for your home.

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b6maQ TIL of Gottlob Bumann, a Geman Omantic poet who hated a cetain lette of the alphabet between Q and S. He avoided it in all of the 130 poems he wote and efused to say his last name in eveyday convesation.
dDxG7 TIL about the stylitism, a trend among early Christian monks who practiced asceticism by living atop a pillar. One stylite stayed atop his pillar for 54 years without ever coming down
Jwwj TIL the past tense of the English word “dare” is “durst”
awk60 TIL that Oscar Romero, the Bishop of El Salvador, spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture in his country. He was murdered by unidentified gunmen while celebrating Mass. He was later declared a saint by Pope Francis.
l7E6B TIL: Mauritanian girls are force fed up to 16,000 calories a day to make them more attractive to men