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TIL Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where more people speak a native language than a colonial one (90% Guarani vs 87% Spanish)

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16wAX TIL Contrary to claims made by second-wave feminism, most anthropologists hold that there are no known societies that are unambiguously matriarchal, and never have been.
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