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TIL there are several types of auxiliary languages that were designed to act as a universal language and were meant to be easier to learn

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pnN TIL that Edgar Allen Poe’s only full length novel featured a scene in which a cabin boy named Richard Parker is cannibalized by his shipwrecked crew mates. 46 years later, a real ship wrecked crew actually did cannibalize their cabin boy…who was also named Richard Parker.
Av6x TIL that Mount Everest has 4G LTE internet coverage and cellular service.
JY9e8 TIL a man named William "Burro" Smith spent 33 years of his life single handedly digging a 2000ft tunnel through a mountain in the Mojave Desert.
5VOA9 TIL Orville Wright lived to see jets and the first supersonic flight
R71nl TIL there are 177,147 ways to tie a necktie. Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson, a mathematician in Stockholm concluded this number by trying each possible way.