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TIL In Paraguay the Guaraní language is more widely spoken than Spanish (52% of the rural population only speaks it), making the country a linguistic anomaly in Latin America

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GALn5 TIL “Time Immemorial” actually refers to a specific date - the Accession of Richard I - in English law
5Vmjp TIL that in the UK, instead of driving to the stadium and drinking and tailgating in the parking lot before sports games, fans often drink at the local pub before walking over to the stadium.
GBaG TIL that 18th Century voracious eater Tarrare was ejected from hospital after being suspected of eating a toddler.
QJ6Aa Today I Learned about Operation Legacy, a covert program by the British Foreign Office to destroy colonial documents in order to "avoid embarrassment". In 2011, victims of the British response to the Mau Mau Uprising helped unearth 20,000 of the surviving documents that were classified.
r51e TIL USA once decided to nuke the moon. The reason? “Because we can!”.