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TIL Iceland has a higher percentage of English speakers than the USA despite English not being an official language

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QJolp TIL that to promote Man of Steel (2013), Warner Bros paid a professor to create a Superman-centric sermon outline for pastors in order to appeal to Christian viewers.
AD4Wd TIL the James Webb telescope is so powerful that it can see the heat signature of a bumblebee at the distance of the Moon
9Y166 TIL Mongolians were afraid of Lightning. And they thought eating animals that were killed by lighting had bad JUJU
7rdx TIL the 1956 Republican party platform read “We are proud of and shall continue our far-reaching and sound advances in matters of basic human needs…We are determined that our government remain warmly responsive to the urgent social and economic problems of our people.”
VMVBG Today I learned that 3 MIT computer scientists noticed the lack of peer review for submitted papers in phony journals, and created a fake CS paper software to prove how fraud the organizations were. It worked.