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TIL parents at a school in Idaho called police on a book giveaway event for an award-winning young adult novel banned from the school curriculum because it was “anti-christian”

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m1G8y TIL Grand Duchess Olga, oldest child of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, was a nurse in a military hospital during WW1
oBw5E TIL about Wikitongues, a non-profit organization attempting to document all 6000+ existing spoken languages. To date they have hundreds of recorded conversations and add new videos to their archive every week.
b6kXN TIL that in India, there is a city where families pay expensive fees to get their children tutored for elite-college entrance exams. Many will fail
grOO9 TIL Mountain Dew was originally invented in the 1940s to be mixed with (often homemade) whiskey
XEjoj TIL that Idaho dropped beavers with parachutes from airplanes because the beavers we're destroying rich people's summer homes.