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TIL New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, with as many as 800 spoken languages

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B70D TIL Sochi, Russia, home to the 2014 Winter Olympics, is considered the country’s largest resort city, with a “subtropical climate” and “warm to hot summers and mild winters”
6MYl TIL that Texas cancelled its last meal program after an inmate ordered two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a large bowl of fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream, and a slab of peanut butter fudge and didn’t eat any of it.
Z8llp TIL When Washington became president, he scrapped the plans for "Washington monument" as he didn’t want to use public money for a personal memorial monument. Long after he died, In 1833 a small group of Washingtonians established a society to raise private funds for the project and got it built.
VMpO8 TIL when the Romanov family was executed in 1918 the daughters Tatiana, Anastasia, and Maria survived the initial gunfire because they had over 1.3 kilograms (2.9 pounds) of diamonds sewn into their clothing, which the bullets ricocheted off. They were subsequently killed with bayonets.
5YORp TIL of Shizo Kanakuri, a japanese athlete who collapsed during the 1912 olympics marathon. Embarrassed, he went home without notifying race officials. He eventually came back to finish, with a time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds