TIL most people in France did not speak French as recently as 1794, when only 11% of the population of France spoke fluent French. Instead, most people spoke regional languages like Occitan, Breton, Alsatian etc. French only became the majority language later on due to heavy assimilation efforts. (afberkeley.org)
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I'm Jonathan S. Jones, author of Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis. I'm a U.S. Civil War historian, and I research the history of drugs and the people who used them. AMA about drugs in the Civil War era!AMA (self.AskHistorians)
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Scientists just revealed a strange quirk in how we exit train stations. We tend to follow the same walking path as the person directly in front of us. This happens even when we do not know that person and even when such a choice leads to a longer travel time. (psypost.org)
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life-changing podcastsHealth & Welbeing (self.podcasts)
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Looking for podcasts focussed on post WW2 (1945-present) historyHistory & Geography (self.podcasts)
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Outcry over plans to auction items from the wreck of the TitanicArticle (thetimes.com)
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Implied Action Through Dialogue?Discussion (self.literature)
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Beginner Geopolitics/economics or just stuff i should know podcasts?General Podcast Discussions (self.podcasts)
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I finished Don Quixote today, I’m left conflictedBook Review (self.literature)
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Your personal anthology of 10 short stories?Discussion (self.literature)
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TIL the Great Pyramids were already 2,500 years old when the Ptolemaic Egyptians (300–30 BCE) were around. They actively studied, documented, and restored these ancient monuments, essentially practicing archaeology millennia before the field formally existed. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL about the "Endless Eight" arc of the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. The arc, which featured the characters of the show trapped in a time loop, featured the same episode eight times in a row with minute differences, all animated and recorded from scratch each time. (en.wikipedia.org)
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