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TIL: Some cash machines in London have a Cockney language setting.

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gr7XW TIL French KFC does not sell gravy!
wDJJ TIL that by the end of WW2 1.6 million Canadians (total population 11 million) had served in the military. Canada also had the fourth-largest air force and fifth-largest naval surface fleet in the world.
AN0r4 TIL sore muscles a day after a workout are not caused by lactic acid build up. It's called DOMS, delayed onset muscle soreness, and it's mainly general inflammation and microdamage.
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