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TIL there is a language called Boontling spoken only in the small Northern California town of Boonville. It is a mixture of English, Scottish, Irish, Pomo Indian and Spanish.

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jNRlE TIL that the US Navy used to forbid "obscene" tattoos, which led to a boom in tattoos of nude women among men who didn't want to serve. If they joined the navy later, they had to have a tattoo artist "dress" the woman.
wLE8J TIL that the mostly-improvised film "Waiting For Guffman" took only 29 days to shoot but over 18 months to edit. The long editing process was due to the fact that over 90 hours of footage was filmed, which needed to be whittled down to 86 minutes.
bO7Z TIL that Rajiv Surendra, the rapping mathlete from Mean Girls, is now an incredibly sought-after calligrapher
Z8KrQ TIL: Romans used geese as guard animals.
kJ0Y5 TIL about Pandanus Language which is only ever used by some New Guinea peoples when collecting Pandanus nuts