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TIL that American Sign Language (ASL) has drawn significantly on Plains Indigenous Sign Language (PISL) a one-time common language of Native Americans of the Central and Midwestern US.

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P7We TIL the Ottoman Sultan, Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I, declared his intention to send £10,000 to aid Ireland’s farmers. However, Queen Victoria intervened and requested that the Sultan send only £1,000, because she had sent only £2,000 herself.
7rmPp TIL the maximum weight of a Polar Bear is more than maximum weights a tiger, lion and jaguar put together.
xVkPg TIL "Eye of the Tiger" was originally going to be called "Survival" until the writers decided it was alright to rhyme "rival" with "tiger"
jNA5v TIL the phrase "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" comes from the fact that a horse's age and health can be estimated buy examining the number and quality of their teeth.
1bo7 TIL Patrick Stewart, was initially considered for the role of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Roddenberry did not want to cast Stewart as Picard, since he had envisioned an actor who was “masculine, virile, and had a lot of hair”. Roddenberry’s first choice was Stephen Macht