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TIL Texas has it’s own dialect of German, and it’s going extinct

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9YLbG TIL a guy is more likely to be gay if he went through puberty earlier
E1Y4W TIL Minesweeper and Solitaire were added to Windows back in the 3.1 days, to train mouse discipline without the users even realizing they were learning. Solitaire was added to teach users how to Drag and Drop, Minesweeper taught using the right/left mouse buttons and mouse precision/control
WbN4 TIL that the body of Leon Czolgosz, Assassin of President McKinley, was dissolved with acid after his execution
8emLP TIL that the UAE enforces and moniters traffic laws using AI driven cameras. Any violations results in a SMS giving either a fine or a warning
kyd4 TIL that the last time someone was killed by a spider in australia was in 2016, the second last time was in 1979, a total of 37 years. this was due to an anti-venom being made in 1980 for funnel web spiders.