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TIL there are more people who learned English as a second language than native speakers.

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lo5JA TIL that in 2013 a petition requesting that the United States Government build a Death Star reached 25,000 signatures, the threshold requiring the White House office to make a response. One part of the response was, "The Administration does not support blowing up planets."
xvm7 TIL only 35% of Harvard freshman have ever had sex. Nationwide, 47% of students have sex before they graduate high school.
8ebaa TIL "Jet Ski" is a trademarked brand name belonging to Kawasaki. A neutral name for this type of vehicle is for example personal watercraft (PWC) or water scooter.
69P4W TIL: A genetic study, published in 2020, revealed Tutankhamun had the haplogroups YDNA R1b, which originated in western Asia and which today makes up 50–60% of the genetic pool of modern Europeans
Do1e TIL it is the chemical reaction between vegetables and olive oil that makes the Mediterranean diet healthy.