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TIL: There are over 200 different Chinese languages, many of which are mutually unintelligible when talking across languages/dialects

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XKXj TIL that the collective term for nieces and nephews is “niblings”
oBD68 TIL that in the opening credits of the TV show Three's Company the woman Jack sees right before he falls off his bike is Suzanne Somers in a wig.
YpveB TIL of the 1904 disaster of the burning and sinking of sidewheel passenger steamboat PS General Slocum. At the time of the accident, she was on a chartered run carrying members of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church to a church picnic. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board died.
8a9X4 TIL that while "Till" and "Until" mean the same thing, "Till" is not an abbreviation of "until". In fact "Till" is older than the word "Until", and writing the word as 'til is considered an error.
wox0J TIL there have been allegations of doping in the Tour de France since the race began in 1903. Early Tour riders consumed alcohol and used ether, among other substances, as a means of dulling the pain of competing in endurance cycling.