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TIL the current Spanish-language World Champion for Scrabble has previously also won the French-language and English-language championships. A New Zealander, he only speaks English.

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XE8r TIL teachers at a school in Korea for children with disabilities molested, raped, and killed students and got away with it. They were even reinstated at the school. A movie was made based on the event and the school was shut down because the film sparked public outcry.
b6yj TIL that every year engineering students hang a VW bug from a bridge in Vancouver
OKbe TIL that nannies would masturbate their children to put them to sleep up until the seventeenth century.
g40b TIL that most photocopiers and scanners can detect and refuse to scan currency, as well as Adobe Photoshop
wE56 TIL native speakers of tone languages (such as Mandarin and Vietnamese) are much more likely to have ‘perfect pitch’ and can identify musical notes much more accurately than native speakers of non-tone languages, such as English.