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TIL that the Chinese word for sodium(钠) is pronounced “Na”

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Jev1 TIL that prostitutes developed the West. They earned much more than the men they served, so were able to become providers of many important services such as education. In 1869, Wyoming was the first territory to allow women to vote. They then refused to become a state unless women kept that right
QN9GE TIL that in July 2002, Keiko, the orca from Free Willy, was released into the wild after 23 years in captivity. He soon appeared at a Norwegian fjord, hoping for human contact. He even let children ride on his back.
MeZvW TIL that J. Robert Oppenheimer, inventor of the atomic bomb, tried to poison his tutor in college using an apple doused with toxic chemicals
vvxj TIL the mother of a 9-week-old child that went missing in 1980 insisted that a dingo took her baby. Six years after being convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, the child’s jacket was found in a dingo lair. In 2012, it was officially ruled that a dingo had taken and killed the child.
L4xZ TIL The government of Dubai pays it’s citizens 2 grams of gold for every Kg of weight they lose.