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TIL the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poetry in 2014 sold less than 400 copies

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m1jdy TIL After the integration of Nunavik into Canada, the Inuktitut language has added thousands of words to itself in the last few decades, at the same time that many words became obsolete and lost. New words include “Funnialuk” — as in “very funny.”
KaX4 TIL the nazis were the first modern government to enact a smoking ban.
OAY7 TIL Cancún was made into a tourist destination in 1974 with the Mexican Government investing in 9 hotels. The population in 1970 was 3 people whereas the population in 2010 was 722,880.
m1JPo TIL that in a 2014 poll, U.S. southerners were evenly split on whether Kentucky was a southern state.
5VOKp TIL about Henry Cotton, an asylum director who believed that all insanity was caused by sepsis in other parts poisoning the brain, leading to widespread amputation of his patients' colons, teeth, reproductive organs, and even stomachs in order to "cure" them, with as many as 45% dying as a result