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TIL up to 88% of parents of deaf children never learn ASL.

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e098D TIL of Joseph Grew, the US ambassador to Japan during the lead-up to WWII, who in Jan. 1941 heard rumors in Tokyo that the Japanese were preparing a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in case of a break with the US. Grew even alerted the US State Department.
oRkvL TIL Port-au-Prince Marriott Hotel opened in 2015 as a response to help Haiti rebuild its tourism industry after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It employs 200 staff, with many who were recruited from Haiti’s poorest areas and features over 200 original artworks
grxwL TIL that the SI unit of time equal to one million years is called a megaannus. Its larger versions are the gigaannus and the teraannus.
ANavl TIL that the “SEGA” jingle at the beginning of Sonic the Hedgehog took up ~ 1/8th of the entire game’s storage size on the cartridge!
GApZ7 TIL humans can be born with tails.