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TIL that places that end in -stan mean "places of" in Persian

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rNQ00 TIL 900 toddlers shot themselves or someone else between 2015-2022 and at least 1/4 of 3-4 year olds are strong enough to pull a trigger
R5gn4 TIL that the sarcophagus of pharaoh Nectanebo II was later re-used as a bath-tub.
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AN6dn TIL that because The Flash (2023) was shooting during Covid restrictions instead of shooting scenes in an American neighborhood, they instead built houses from scratch on a plot of land in the UK and then had to tear them down after filming