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TIL that by age 3, a well-to-do child hears 30 million more words than a less fortunate one.

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8egpK TIL Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Day of Infamy" speech on 12/8/1941 about the attack on Pearl Harbor attracted the largest audience in American radio history, with over 81% of adult American listeners tuning in to hear the speech.
kJ1kd TIL that the New York Times Best-Seller list is not a mathematically objective factual content based on sales figures, but editorial content protected under the US constitution as free speech
jenN TIL that Cartman’s mom, Liane, is named after Trey Parker’s cheating ex-fiancée, thus the jokes about her promiscuity.
LQWP9 TIL the word candidate comes from the Latin word for white; candidus, because Roman senators wore white togas.
Y7OMP TIL the last german forces of WW1 to surrender were a group of 20 soldiers which roamed the forests German New Guinea for 4 years singing "Die Wacht am Rhein", they surrendered in January 1919, 2 months after the end of WW1 in Europe.