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TIL “no” is the 84th most used word in the English Language while “yes” is 486.

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XN7E TIL that Serbo-Croatian is a language comprising of four mutually intelligible variants and is the official language of 5 countries. It has 5 different names (not related to the countries) and can be written in both Latin and Cryllic script.
PYR5Z TIL it is not recommended to flush a scorpion down a toilet, as scorpions can survive being under the water hence they may come back out that same toilet or crawl up the drains and into your home
eKWD TIL in Battle of Saragarhi in 1897, 21 Sikhs soldiers of the then British Indian army fought 10000 Afghan tribal and killed over 600 of then before they were cut down to the last man
KOxJE TIL that a U.S. Department of Defense Strategic Command has documents that describes a plan for defending against zombies. It is used as a means of training students in military planning.
jNdvX TIL that Adolf Hitler could not prove who his grandfather was, as his father was born illegitimately and his paternity was never established, meaning he could not prove his own "Aryan descent"