Post * xVrW5 — Curious Curator

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TIL about 'brain fuck' a programming language that it has only 8 valid characters

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DQ7Vr TIL In June 2009, the government of Greenland, the Naalakkersuisut, made Greenlandic the sole official language of the autonomous territory, to strengthen it in the face of competition from the colonial language, Danish. The main variety is Kalaallisut, or West Greenlandic.

nZ0b TIL that 98% of all adoptions in Japan are of adult men

GY6Dg TIL That hard drive memory's are smaller because they read a different type of computer language

O0EY TIL that only apes, elephants, and some dolphins, whales, and birds can pass the mirror self-awareness test

gMe49 TIL that in the 1950s a man said to his lover that no woman could write erotica like the Marquis de Sade. In response, Anne Desclos wrote a novel that was so obscene that the French authorities tried to take the publisher to court, and Desclos kept her name secret for forty years.