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TIL Mali discovered America ~180 years before Columbus.

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OpQX TIL that in 2015, 2 men escaped paying for their £140 (€195) taxi fare by bringing a mannequin wearing a hat with them into the car. After they both got out (leaving the mannequin) they told the cabbie where their “sleeping friend” lived and that he would settle up payment at the end of the journey.
mx1BY TIL that Sweden contains 267,750 separate islands, the most for any country. Less than 1,000 are permanently inhabited.
bro4 TIL: At least 15 repeat sex offenders in California have asked for surgical castration as a way of avoiding indefinite incarceration.
aRob TIL that the last descendant of the ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, died as a spoken language by the 1600s. It has survived until today as the language of religious services of Egypt’s 10% Christian minority-the Copts. The alphabet uses Greek letters plus extra letters deriving from hieroglyphics
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