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TIL That “The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the hardest tongue twister in the world.

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wOG8 TIL of the Parsley Massacre, a government-sponsored genocide of ethnic Haitian civilians in 1937. Dominican soldiers would hold up a sprig of parsley to someone and ask “What is this?”; how the person would pronounce the Spanish word for parsley would determine his/her fate.
yVbVV TIL that Talia Shire, the actress who played Adrian Balboa in "Rocky" and Connie Corleone in "The Godfather", is the younger sister of Francis Ford Coppola.
OGGOY TIL that Tom Cruise went to seminary school and wanted to become a Catholic priest, until he was booted for stealing the priests’ booze.
ZQBa TIL it is possible to become a lawyer in 4 states with zero formal education in law
RG7Q TIL the world’s oldest man is celebrating his bar mitzvah at age 113. His first one, 100 years ago, was cancelled due to World War 1.