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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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D1bJV TIL Belle Gibson, the disgraced wellness influencer who profited from fake cancer claims, pretended to donate proceeds to the family of a little boy who had an inoperable brain tumour she falsely claimed was much like her own. He died from his illness in 2017 at the age of nine.
W7Z0d TIL For over twenty years, Marcio Matolias has lived in a sandcastle on the beach in Rio de Janeiro.
W708L TIL june 7, 1917 British sappers blew up German positions. The noise of this explosion is considered the loudest man-made sound of the pre-nuclear era. In 30 seconds, explosions killed 10,000 German soldiers and destroyed two lines of trenches.
1Y9X TIL when Ruth Bader Ginsburg was studying at Harvard, the Dean of Harvard Law asked her “How do you justify taking a spot from a qualified man?” Ruth transferred to Columbia Law School and became the first woman to be on two major law reviews, later becoming an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court