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TIL that the longest word in the English language is over 189,000 letters long and takes over 3 hours to pronounce

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7rQEO TIL in 1493, it is speculated that King James of Scotland sent two newborns to live in isolation with a deaf, mute woman to see what language they would speak. The King supposedly reported that the children grew up speaking Hebrew.
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ADBdx TIL in most ordinary people, our two ears are not equally good at processing verbal input: there is a right ear advantage (REA) that makes us perceive verbal input from this side more clearly