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TIL: That the West Country Dialect is the closest form of English to the original Saxon language

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rG64 TIL the only cameraman shot during the filming of COPS was accidentally shot by a cop.
amNo TIL 40% of Americans never move from their hometown.
gVMW TIL in 2008, Plainclothes cops jumped out of a van, snatched up a 12-year-old girl, and beat her during a prostitution raid. After discovering that they had the wrong house, they charged her with assaulting a public official.
wR6J TIL that Nestlé promoted breast milk subsitutes in developing countries which lead to the death of infants
7rPx TIL Joe Strummer (frontman of The Clash) was pressured by his manager to go into hiding in France as a publicity stunt because their Scottish leg of the tour was selling slowly. Joe Strummer obliged but instead he “dicked around” in France and ran the Paris Marathon in April 1982.