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TIL that Ducks quack in their own regional accents

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4Xl4o TIL a Texas man was once sentenced to sleep outside in a doghouse for 30 nights, as a punishment for child abuse
b9ly0 TIL thieves in Paris recently drilled through a limestone wall in the Catacombs into a high end apartment building wine cellar and made away with $300,000 worth of vintage wine.
Br7Ve TIL that theatres were among the first air-conditioned spaces available to the public, partly why theatre was and is still so popular today.
Z9QB TIL that Icelanders have no family names. Instead, their surname is just their father’s name plus “son” or “dottir”
lymK TIL that in 1893 Hawaii’s monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters forced the queen to abdicate. The coup led to the dissolving of the Kingdom of Hawaii two years later, its annexation as a U.S. territory and eventual admission as the 50th state in the union.