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TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s English accent has neutralized over the years, but he works to maintain his Austrian-influenced accent because it’s part of his professional image

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59bP TIL the toxic surfactant, Corexit, pumped into the gulf by the hundreds of thousands of gallons by BP after the Deepwater Horizon spill, was 52 more times toxic when in combination with oil. That is to say that the oil left alone by itself would have been less toxic and easier to clean up.
xV4gD TIL that Aramaic -the language spoken by the historical Jesus- is still being spoken as a mother tongue in a small village in Syria.
9X1X TIL that in Detroit in the 1930s, a baby fell from a high window and landed on a man who was passing the street below. The baby and the man both survived the incident. A year later, the SAME baby fell from the SAME window and landed on the SAME man, and they both survived.
Pgee TIL a dolphin named Pelorus Jack regularly guided ships in New Zealand through treacherous waters until his disappearance in 1912.
VBKL4 TIL the Arbuckle Mountains in Oklahoma are the oldest formations between the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains, at 1.4B years old