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TIL that Farsi (Persian) is a completely gender neutral language with no distinction between he and she او.

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PL1G TIL there was a woman named Edith Macefeild who would not sell her house to make way for a commercial development project in Seattle. When she died, she willed the house to the leader of the construction project “in gratitude for the friendship he had shown her during the construction.”
GA7ZJ TIL Exxon paid less than 4% of the cleanup they promised after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989
9YYZ6 TIL that in 1914, four empires claimed to be successors to the Roman Empire; the German Empire, Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire and Italian Empire. All of them collapsed because of WW1 except for the Italian Empire, leaving them as the only empire to claim succession from the Roman Empire.
P10jL TIL that Martha’s Vineyard is one of only 5 natural place names that the U.S. Board on Geographic Names has allowed to include an apostrophe.
ADgwd TIL that France won a war over China in 1885 resulting in the creation of French Indochina