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TIL that the Danish woman Karen Jeppe freed 2000 women and children during the Armenian Genocide, and helped many others.

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jGvN TIL that the Dothraki language was designed to sound like Arabic to the untrained ear, or a mix between Spanish and Arabic to anyone who knows Arabic.
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