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TIL David Bowie turned down knighthood
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TIL the main component of education in Turkmenistan has been almost completely replaced by memorization of the “Ruhnama”, the president’s personal autobiography. An engineer reported that all his son learns is passages. “He has begun telling me off because he has memorised more of the book than me.”
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TIL that before she was famous, Nicki Minaj was fired from approximately fifteen jobs for discourtesy to customers.
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TIL adjectives in English always have to be in this order: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose Noun. So you can have a ‘lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife’, but any other word order would sound entirely wrong.
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TIL A Giraffe's neck has the same number of bones as a human neck.
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TIL the “D” in D-Day stands for nothing. In military terms D-Day is used for date and H-Hour is used for time the attack or combat operations are to be initiated.