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TIL When asked what was the greatest political fact of modern times, Otto Von Bismarck (the man who unified Germany) responded that it was “the inherited and permanent fact that North America speaks English.”

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R5804 TIL that I've been calling everything an ACRONYM when in fact they could instead be an INITIALISM. An acronym can be spoken like a word e.g. FIFA, NASA, RAM, where as an initialism cannot be easily spoken as a word e.g. FBI, CIA, UFO, HSBC, and are instead pronounced letter by letter.
7rW6x TIL In 2008 a British man traveling to Dubai was sentenced to 4 years in prison after being caught with 0.003g of Cannabis, Which was stuck to his shoe.
xYWD TIL: The Joshua Tree made famous by U2 has been dead since late 2000. A plaque commemorates where it stood
KYrOB TIL I learned you can make pretty significant money by reporting SEC Violations
9YwMB TIL that all US astronauts since 2011 have to speak Russian.