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TIL the Irish language has three counting systems: one for math, another for humans, and another for non-humans.

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k70B TIL there is an entire village in India whose main export is muscular men to be bouncers at city nightclubs.
Bgabb TIL of the 50 tallest statues in the world, 33 depict a buddha or bodhisattva.
lovNr TIL in 1960 David Latimer planted a glass bottle (terrarium) with seed and he last watered it in 1972. It was sealed then and is still sustaining itself.
KOAJ TIL that there is a cemetery in Romania famous for their vibrant and colorful tombstones that artfully depict scenes from the buried person’s life, most often involving how they died. Each tombstone also has a poetic epitaph inscription.
epEAJ TIL according to genetic and archaeological evidence, cannabis was first domesticated about 12,000 years ago in East Asia during the early Neolithic period. The oldest written record of cannabis usage is the Greek historian Herodotus's reference to the Scythians taking cannabis steam baths.