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TIL there’s a dialect that’s spoken only by 2 people, who don’t like each other and don’t talk to each other.

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OoQd7 TIL the 1st season of the kids show Courage the Cowardly Dog ended with the main character (Courage) becoming a puppeteer for his owners (the two main protagonists)'s lifeless bodies after they were turned into marionettes. He goes mentally insane from living alone after a while.
x65aD TIL the USA hasn't had a single fatal commercial airline crash since 2009!
pYyGN TIL famous Pre-Raphaelite English artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rosetti was in love with his friend's wife and wombats and even drew both of his passions together in 1869
n5nP TIL There is an inn on the Canadian American border that encourages guests to spot illegal trespassers by supplying them with night vision goggles
JYZgm TIL about Ern Malley, a fictitious Australian poet created to ridicule modernist poetry. A modernist journal devoted an issue to his poems and the editor was sued for immoral material. A policeman said "I don't know what 'incestuous' means, but I think there is a suggestion of indecency about it."