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TIL There is a 5000 year old, still undeciphered, language with over 1200 symbols.

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5d4R TIL Canadian botanist Charles Budd Robinson was killed due to his bad language skill. When he asked a village boy to chop down a coconut (kelapa), he mistakenly asked the boy to chop down a head (kepala). The villagers mistook him for a headhunter and killed him.
MeL48 TIL that Match.com was sold in 1997 for only 8 million dollars. As of 2018, it's worth 2.1 billion.
nevl7 TIL Sleep literally cleans your brain. During slumber, more cerebrospinal fluid flushes through the brain to wash away harmful proteins and toxins that build up during the day.
oRPgL TIL Sperm whales use babysitters. Sperm whale youths cannot dive as deep as their mothers so when the mother needs to forage in the deep the youth is kept safe by swimming with other adult whales.
k70B TIL there is an entire village in India whose main export is muscular men to be bouncers at city nightclubs.