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TIL The military spends more money on air conditioning than NASA’s entire budget

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Golg TIL The Massachusetts Language, once spoken by several Algonquin tribes, went extinct in the 1800s. However several documents survived such as Bibles, treaties, and sales papers. In 1993 the Wampanoag tribe started teaching classes and now there are over 400 secondary and 4 native speakers.
VMyQD TIL: Pecan is a Native American word meaning " “all nuts requiring a stone to crack.”
OoMmX TIL an Australian fast-food chain called Chicken Treat let a chicken named Betty write out it's tweets by pecking at a keyboard. Apparently, if Betty did manage to hit 5 keys in a row to form a word, she'd get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's first chicken to tweet in English.
Mewp7 TIL there was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle rock band that toured as a stage show with an album of original songs and performers in animatronic heads, brought to you by Pizza Hut. The "band" appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show along with April O'neill to promote the 'Coming Out of Their Shells' tour
8aADL TIL When Ian Fleming was coming up with the character of James Bond, he wanted a name which sounded bland and uninteresting. “When I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, James Bond is the dullest name I ever heard.”