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TIL that the Tower of B*bel was built to avoid a second fl**d by humans who all spoke a single language. As a result, they were punished by being scattered and made to speak different languages, so they could no longer understand each other

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d8Qn8 TIL that Linus Torvalds, the creator and principal developer of Linux, first met his wife Tove while running introductory computer laboratory exercises for students in 1993. He instructed the course attendees to send him an e-mail as a test, to which Tove responded with an e-mail asking for a date
K9E4 TIL Children’s books have 50% more rare words in them than does an average showing of adult prime-time television
grWoy TIL In the 20th century there was a female gang called the Forty Elephants.Due to conventional ideas of femininity that women were weaker than men,courts believed it impossible women were orchestrators of crime.Most women were assumed to have played supporting roles and received lesser sentences.
gMnVA TIL Neo’s passport in “The Matrix” (1999) expired on September 11, 2001.
Y79mA TIL about a children's game called Snapdragon were kids pulled raisins out of alcohol fire