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TIL about Dinolingo, a language app designed for children, which launched the same year as Duolingo

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Wkrg9 TIL about a Horror themed Japanese Anime series called Ghost Stories that was not well received in Japan and when it was dubbed over in English the voice acting cast were given free rein to say whatever they wanted. This led to the entire series becoming a Dark Comedy rather than Horror.
jNvjn TIL according to the 2020 census, out of the 331 million Americans, 110 million live in either California, Texas, Florida or New York.
D1lKg TIL that the first "phone book" contained no phone numbers and wasn't a book. It was a sheet with the names of 50 people and businesses in New Haven, CT that owned a telephone
YYV7 TIL MIT found that the United States has enough geothermal resources to supply for at least 2,000 times its annual consumption of primary energy
QNy1e TIL Vietnam is the second largest exporter of coffee in the world