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TIL that dolphins’ milk is as thick as toothpaste.

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ADJR4 TIL Before the British partitioned India, the spoken language of Urdu and Hindi was referred to collectively as “Hindustani”. When India became independent, Gandhi wanted to keep this Hindustani language. But later Urdu became official language of Pakistan, and Hindi, official language of India
ne1Yo TIL that the passengers on United Airlines Flight 93 did indeed breach the cockpit. The cockpit voice recorder revealed sounds of screaming and crashing; the hijackers' reading of the takbir; and then a calm voice in English instructing "pull it up." Five seconds later, the plane crashed.
WZjY TIL that when New Horizons flew past Jupiter the gravity assist created by the planet increased its speed by 9,000 mph.
b6ob4 TIL about James Shields, an American Politician who has the distinction of being the only person in U.S. history to serve as a Senator for three different states; he represented Illinois from 1849 to 1855, Minnesota from 1858 to 1859, and Missouri in 1879.
ZGNG TIL In 2006, Russia gifted the USA a 9/11 memorial monument, which was erected in Bayonne, NJ.