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TIL in America, a recurring joke in Futurama is that French is a dead language by the 31st century; in the French dub, however, German is the dead language.

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5VBwk TIL the Zerão stadium in Macapá, Brazil is named after the common belief that the midfield line lies exactly on the equator, causing each team to defend one hemisphere
GA5R1 Today I learned the ancient Greeks performed tonsillectomies, using the “hook and knife” method with direct sunlight to visualize the inflamed tissue
GAgJ TIL that China has practiced a form of gift exchange that goes back to the 7th Century where a Panda is given away for the purpose of diplomatic relations. This practice is known as “Panda Diplomacy”.
OGx5g TIL 117 billion humans have ever been born. Those alive in 2022 represent 6.8% of the total number of people who have ever lived, up from a total world population of 5,000,000 ten thousand years ago
x67L0 TIL when Charles Darwin was sent some flowers from a friend he noticed one flower was extremely long and bet some moth with really long mouth parts exists to pollinate it. A few years later that moth was discovered.