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TIL that the English language has no future tense verbs, and English speakers have developed complicated and nuanced ways to talk about the future that many other languages lack.

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vQnr TIL that the drug Daraprim costs about 5 cents in India compared to $750 in the United States!
6ADY TIL that at it’s height the First Persian Empire contained about 44% of the world’s population (about 50 million people), making it the largest empire in history by population percentage
OowZ4 TIL that more than two dozen large ships sink or go missing every year.
7ebb TIL the word ‘buck’ as a synonym for dollar originates with the use of buckskins as currency in the 18th century.
m1WaY TIL the longest last name in the world was that of a German man whose last name was 40 letters long!