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TIL that when learning new phrases in a foreign language, hearing those phrases sung and then singing them has been shown to lead to better results than hearing them spoken normally and then repeating them the same way.

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9VG TIL George Forman made more money off of his grill than from his entire boxing career
aaVo TIL that due to clerical errors, Mississippi didn’t ratify the abolition of slavery until 2013.
R7XVa TIL that in January 2005, the US Navy’s submarine, USS San Francisco, traveling at full speed under 525 feet of water hit an uncharted undersea mount, resulting in one death and many injuries.
04kp TIL there is a “Redundancy Theory of Truth”, the belief that saying something is true is meaningless; e.g. “It is true that 2+2=4” means the same thing as “2+2=4”. Thus “truth” is a construct of language devoid of meaning. This solves the famous Liar Paradox (“This sentence is false.”)
QJQk6 TIL that only about 10% of stock trades are done by actual humans. The remainder is done by high frequency trading algorithms and day trading bots.