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TIL that the English idiom “It’s all Greek to me” exists in many other languages. However, in most cases, instead of Greek the language identified as unknown is most often Chinese.

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jNMyv TIL that a girl who was abducted at 3 saw her own face on a milk carton. It is one of very few success stories of the missing children milk carton campaign.
9L0p TIL that in 1947, the Los Angeles Examiner called the mother of the Black Dahlia murder victim to tell her that her daughter had won a beauty contest. Once they extracted as much information as possible, they revealed that her daughter had actually been found murdered.
8aYYG TIL the Mayan god of childbirth (Ah-Cuxtal) knew germ theory
OQDL TIL a 1913 storm called the White Hurricane “battered four of the five lakes, killed 250 people, sunk 12 ships and caused $120 million in damage. “It was the most ferocious storm ever recorded on the Great Lakes at that time or since.”
v1pED TIL Hamlet and Much Ado About Nothing have both been translated into Klingon. Klingon Hamlet was also performed in its entirety by the same theater company responsible for the Klingon Christmas Carol.