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TIL The United States Defense Budget of $698 Billion is More Than the Next Seventeen Nations Combined

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BrrQW TIL Toishanese was the dominant language as well as lingua franca in Chinatowns across Canada and the United States. It is commonly mistaken for Cantonese but has little mutual intelligibility with it
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