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TIL there’s a website that catalogs people with different accents reading the same story in English… and you can access them for free!

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neB5W TIL that Nazis ordered the Minsk Ghetto to turn over a Jewish resistance leader, Hersh Smolar, hiding in a hospital. They handed over a bloody passport and said he'd been killed in a roundup shooting. The Nazis fell for it. Smolar survived the war.
vP1Rr TIL that two 16-year-olds got lost in the Canadian wilderness while snowboarding, but were able to stay warm by burning their homework. The two boys were rescued the following day and managed to avoid frostbite, sustaining only minor injuries
woDw8 TIL That the Ariat brand name comes from the horse Secratariat
VMdAm TIL that "ACHOO", the phonetic word for a sneeze, is actually an acronym for "Autosomal Cholinergic Helio-Ophtalmologic Outburst syndrome". This strange sensation is also known as a Photic Sneeze Reflex, which is the feeling you have to sneeze while looking at a bright light.
OGZlY TIL that ​​the very first technical publication by famed Computer Scientist Donald Knuth ​​was the "Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures​". It measured Volume in ​'ngogn​', mass in ​'blintz', and time in ​units of 'clarke'​. It was published in of Mad Magazine in 1957, and earned him $25.