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TIL people think more rationally in their second language and make better choices.

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GjPG TIL the existence of the BT Tower used to be an official secret. It was 189 metres tall, located in the centre of London, and had a rotating restaurant that anyone could visit. It did not appear on maps and was not officially acknowledged until 1993.
wLb9M TIL the last Vietnam draftee, CW5 Ralph Rigby retired in 2014 after 42 years of service.
QXMa TIL that with his early investments in the Apple stock, Forrest Gump’s net worth would be $5.7 billion.
xV9Yb TIL that Academy award-winner Bong Joon-ho made "Okja"(2017) after watching Sergio Arguello’s “La Parka” (“The Reaper”), a film about a slaughterhouse worker who spent 25 years killing bulls, and Nikolaus Geyrhalter's “Our Daily Bread,” a film about EU factory-farming.
4K9R TIL a critic reviewing LMFAO’s album “Sorry For Party Rocking” wrote that the songs are so persistent that “ if you ate a can of Alphabetti Spaghetti you could shit out more intelligent lyrics to a more pleasing tune”.