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TIL that Polish is the third most spoken language in Chicago

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8admZ TIL that the first Russian nuclear submarine killed 10 people during construction, at least 22 in a reactor accident, 30 in a fire, and 1 by short-circuit
wLrGM TIL a team of international scholars have been working to recreate recipes from 4000 years ago from tablets. One Mesopotamian dish resembles a chicken pot pie, with layers of dough and chunks of bird smothered by a sort of Babylonian béchamel sauce
b6Lnp TIL About Kenza, a monovo monkey that can understand complex human sentences and build mental representations, including games.
kJ67W TIL about the Spiegel affair, 1962 West German political incident in which the country's Minister of Defense arrested the chief editor of a magazine for writing an article critical of the nation's military.
naxb TIL A man killed his wife inside the Walmart she was working at. Rather than close the store, they chose to just rope off the gore-splattered area while the police investigated.