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TIL Korean is a “language isolate”, a language with no known relatives. It has more speakers than every other isolate combined.

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epvDg TIL mouse-deer are the smallest hoofed mammals in the world, but they are not deer (nor mice). The Java mouse-deer is the smallest, with an average length of 45 cm (18 in) and an average height of 30 cm (12 in)
xQD TIL after WWII, the Allies conducted a massive ‘ethnic cleansing’ of German-speaking citizens from certain areas, resulting in app. 500,000 civilian deaths., some as slave laborers in Auschwitz and Theresienstadt, which were kept in operation.
W9aX TIL The ancient Ta Prahm Temple has a sculpture that resembles a stegosaurus
WkoPN TIL of the Streisand Effect, where an attempt to censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely.
6xNQ TIL the way Helsinki survived WW2. In 1944 the USSR began a massive air attack on the city to force Finland to leave the war. Finns used fires and searchlights to trick Soviet bombers into dropping bombs outside the city. Russian diplomats were surprised to find an intact Helsinki after the war.