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TIL Tagalog is the fifth most spoken language in the united states, ranking higher than Vietnamese, Korean, German, Arabic and Russian.

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8Bpa TIL that 7 out of 10 Chinese students studying abroad never return home, resulting in China having the worst brain drain in the world.
4XWQb TIL it is illegal in the United States to advertise falsely art claimed to be Native American
69d0Y TIL Otis Redding died 3 days after recording (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
VMoA8 TIL NASA conducted a series of arduous tests on 11 deaf men to study the impact of motion sickness on astronauts after discovering that people who became deaf as a result of spinal meningitis didn’t suffer from motion sickness because of the impact of the illness on their inner ear physiology
epMYE Today I Learned there is actually a Christmas disease, it’s a rare form of Haemophilia named after the first known patient