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TIL the U.S has more Spanish speakers than Spain.
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TIL that Félicette, the only cat to survive a spaceflight, was honored in 2019 with a memorial at France's International Space University.
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TIL Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park) only starred in BASEketball - they did not write or direct the film
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TIL that Chinchillas have 50 hairs per follicle which is why their fur is so soft, like a fine thread count
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TIL that a man living in a high crime area of Oakland, CA put out a tiny statue of Buddha in an attempt to stop illegal dumping on his property. The tiny Buddha began getting worshipped by local Vietnamese residents, and eventually crime in the area went down 82%
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TIL that there is a scientific measurement for the ‘risk of death’ of any action: the micromort. If an activity is rated as one micromort, you would have a one in a million chance of dying while doing it. Running a marathon is ~7 micromorts, sky diving 10, and climbing Mount Everest 40,000!