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TIL that the English language doesn’t have any official authority or academy

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eDrg TIL that Australians are entitled by law to a repair/replace/refund on whatever they buy
xVjP5 TIL Warren Buffett bought controlling shares of his now multibillion dollar company, Berkshire Hathaway, just to fire the CEO as revenge for trying to low-ball him when Buffett went to sell the stock. Buffett considers it the dumbest stock he ever bought.
9m0G TIL there are less than 100 Javan rhinos left in the entire world, and they are all located in one national park.
Z8kv4 TIL that skateboarding was banned in Norway from 1977 to 1989
0d9Pp TIL from 1851 to 1856, Utah's territorial capital was the town of Fillmore in Millard County. The town and county were so named to flatter then-President Millard Fillmore.