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Today I learned the BBC runs a pidgin English news service.

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rNAmy TIL Heaviest Animals to Wander the Earth
GYwx7 TIL Arctic is not continent, but just region, because it's basically ice floating on water, not landmass like Antarctic
pb04 TIL Physicists like using 2000 year old ancient Roman lead in their experiments and this is pissing off archaeologists
prlZ TIL 2/3 of Shakespeare sonnets have rhymes that do not work in modern English
mxmex TIL Japan doesn't make execution dates public. "inmates in Japan are notified on the morning of their execution, usually about an hour before."