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TIL Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of very long words

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Ajmo TIL of Tan, a patient in a French hospital who was cognizant and alert, but had paralysis in his right arm. He could only say the word, “tan”. When the man eventually died, Paul Broca examined his brain finding a lesion in the frontal lobe, a spot we now call Broca’s Area.
vPXZB TIL San Marino has two heads of state at once (a diarchy). The heads of state, called "Captains Regent" serve 6-month long terms. They currently have the youngest head of state in the world at 27 and have had a more female heads of state than any other nation with 18.
1aOar TIL that in the Soviet era, the Russians built a series of over 130 nuclear powered, unmanned lighthouses along the northern polar coast. These have since fallen into disrepair. Not all of the original sites are known, and some have been looted including the Strontium-90 cores.
7r6PL TIL that Wellington awarded the Key to the City to a cat named Mittens, for "bringing happiness, laughter and coolness to the capital – and putting the city on the map internationally with his feline antics."
gKRy TIL there’s a day in the Netherlands called “rokjesdag”, which translates to skirts day. That’s the day in spring all girls are suddenly wearing skirts. This day is an invention of writer/columnist Martin Bril.