Post * x69e0 — Curious Curator

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TIL Kalaallisut is the principal language used by all native Greenlanders and most of them are bilingual in Danish, and trilingual, with English. But in Nunavut, Canada, young Inuit prefer to use English and most cannot speak in Inuktitut about everyday life

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1KOV TIL of the 5.04 million articles on the site, Wikipedia’s own staff only consider 0.4% as meeting the basic standards to qualify as a “good” article

9YQAD TIL that until the 1890s, there were people in Britain whose job was being a village’s “sin eater.” When someone died, you paid a sin eater to come over and eat a 'funeral biscuit' that had been placed on the dead body, taking on their sin in the process.

4XBZR TIL the urban legend of Atari burying hundreds of thousands of ET cartridges in a New Mexico landfill actually happened. An excavation found them in 2014.

v1jWx TIL that someone did the math and the more Tom Cruise runs, the better his movies are.

Oodog TIL Ore-Ida invented tater tots to make use of the leftover potato shavings from their French fries production.