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TIL by analyzing his speeches, researchers found Reagan to show signs of Alzheimers before his diagnosis

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kOR6d TIL that around 21 million people in Uganda, half of it's population, are under 15 years of age.
x69Yg TIL that Super Bowl XXXIV (34) is known as the "Dot-Com Super Bowl" because it featured 14 ads from 14 different dot-com companies, each paying an average of $2.2 million per spot. Of these companies, four are still active, five were bought by other companies, and the remaining five are defunct.
VBdjB TIL that the longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters! Today I learned that the longest word in the English language is the chemical name for "Titin," the largest known protein found in the human body. This word has 189,819 letters and would take about 3.5 hours to read aloud!
rRp70 TIL: The Clovis people were not the first Americans. The find supports growing archaeological evidence found in recent years that disputes the notion that the Americas were originally populated by a single migration of people from Asia about 13,000 years ago.
M7GEb TIL that Canada’s coastline (202,080 km) which is the world’s longest is at least 3.5 times the length of Indonesia’s (54,716 km)