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TIL the remaining members of Monty Python sang “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” at Graham Chapman’s funeral

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EjNP TIL although Iceland is considered politically as part of Europe, it is geographically North American and European at the same time, due to the fact that half of Iceland belongs to the Eurasian plate and the other half to the North American plate.
R79pa TIL The American boardgame "Chutes and Ladders" is a bastardization of an ancient Indian game called Moksha Patam. The game's original theming represented the Hindu soul's arduous path to liberation from the cycle of reincarnation and has been played by the same ruleset for nearly 2,000 years.
gwM4 TIL That “Dogs Playing Poker” isn’t the title of the artwork. “A Friend In Need” is one of many pieces on a theme that Coolidge made.
Golg TIL The Massachusetts Language, once spoken by several Algonquin tribes, went extinct in the 1800s. However several documents survived such as Bibles, treaties, and sales papers. In 1993 the Wampanoag tribe started teaching classes and now there are over 400 secondary and 4 native speakers.
6V5w TIL that under a 1868 treaty, the Sioux Indians can reclaim any unused federal lands and, after its closing in 1969, occupied Alcatraz for 18 months.