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TIL That There's a Bible Belt In The Netherlands

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nevK7 TIL Cantonese is considered to be a conservative dialect, its sound system having preserved the final consonants and tones of the Tang Dynasty literary standard.
awVBN TIL Charles Darwin was a member of The Glutton Club at Cambridge which met weekly to eat “birds and beasts, which were before unknown to the human palate”. He also regularly ate some of the animals he discovered in his travels including puma, armadillos, and his famous giant Galapagos tortoises.
9Y6xM TIL: A series of 10 mass stabbings, hammer attacks, and cleaver attacks took place at different elementary schools in China over the course of 2 years. They left at least 25 dead, 115 injured, and were all unrelated.
69yxX TIL Jessica Cantillan, a 17 yr old Mexican citizen received the wrong heart and lung in a transplant surgery at Duke University in 2003. The transplant surgeon (world renowned)wasn't notified untIl the end of surgery. Her body rejected the organs and despite a second surgery, she died.
1ava8 TIL Switzerland is the only country in the world which could fit 114% of its population into bunkers in case of an emergency