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TIL there’s over 30 million extant manuscripts in Sanskrit, the classical language of India. That’s over a hundred times more than the number of extant manuscripts in Latin and Ancient Greek combined.

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TIL there’s over 30 million extant manuscripts in Sanskrit, the classical language of India. That’s over a hundred times more than the number of extant manuscripts in Latin and Ancient Greek combined.

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TIL the word “divorce” didn’t exist in Chinese until the 19th and early 20th centuries. Prior to that, the word most often used was “dissolved”. Men could dissolve a marriage under 7 specific conditions (ex: a lazy wife or a barren wife) while women had almost none.

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TIL that the British valued the promise of freedom they made to slaves who fought for them in the Revolutionary War so much that they disobeyed the Treaty of Paris and evacuated them from New York before the Americans could re-enslave them.

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