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TIL the Welsh word Hireath means to have a homesickness or to long for something, someone, or somewhere that may not have existed or no longer exist and there’s no English equivalent.

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b9Kn4 TIL that a large alliance of Native American tribes, the Timucua, consisted of over 200,000 people spread across 35 chiefdoms. They were probably the first Natives Ponce de Leon met in Florida. The nation was wiped out before 1800 and all evidence of religious items and art were burned by explorers.
kJO61 TIL that at 9:55 pm every night many soldiers on both sides of WWII in Europe tuned their radios to the same station (the German-controlled Radio Belgrade) to listen to a nightly broadcast of the wistful love song "Lili Marleen", which had been virtually unknown before the war
9Yjar TIL the Statue of Liberty almost wasn't built in New York because the governor wouldn't use city funds to build its pedestal, but Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper articles inspired 160,000 people to donate. Though a majority of donations were less than $1, they raised over $100,000 in just five months.
8a8g8 TIL Easter and April Fool’s Day have not fallen on the same day since 1956, but it will happen again in 11 years.
1aOO8 TIL despite being 8 times smaller, Spotify pays music artists twice as much as YouTube does. The music industry makes more money selling vinyl records than from YouTube.