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TIL ‘Jersey Shore’ is known in Japan as 'Macaroni Rascals’

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pY0mZ TIL That in the aftermath of the Spanish-American war, Spain sold the Phillippines to the United States for $20 million.
16M6W TIL the Wenja language from Far Cry Primal is designed to be a hypothetical ancestor of Proto-Indo-European, the reconstructed common ancestor of many modern languages
n1dY TIL Eleanor Roosevelt regularly refused Secret Service protection, and instead traveled with a .22 Smith and Wesson on her person.
64m7 TIL Jellyfish evaporate in the sun as they’re 98% water.
m1glO TIL that we have discovered only two interstellar objects that have passed through our solar system.