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TIL that the Seke language has only 700 speakers, spoken mainly in five mountainous villages in Nepal. 100 of them live in NYC, and 50 of those live in one apartment building in Brooklyn.

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gGmW TIL that the future US President Millard Fillmore was captured by pirates when he was a fisherman and was forced into servitude for ninth months. He then killed the boatswain with an axe and led a revolt to recapture the ship. He then sailed the ship back to Boston were the pirates were hanged.
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