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TIL 56% of the population of Germany speaks English. More than half speak English versus the native language

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Qao9 TIL left-spiraling snails are generally as rare as left handed humans, especially because left and right spiraled snails can’t mate together easily, but in Japan snakes gobble up righties easily but can’t bite into the lefties, so there are way more lefties.
GYkgN TIL actress Constance Smith went to jail for stabbing her boyfriend in 1962. She stabbed him again in 1968 and was charged with attempted murder. They married in 1974.
b5aN TIL Charlie Chaplin once confessed to having had sexual relations with more than 2,000 women. Also, It’s his birthday today.
v18Ax TIL in the movie Full Metal Jacket, the actor that played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey) came up with 150 pages of insults on his own. Also the actor that originally was playing the role couldn't yell more than 30 minutes, but when Ermey stepped in and took over, his energy never let up.
jNBMQ TIL the inventor of the Erector Set also released an "Atomic Energy Laboratory" that included real uranium ore. One suggested activity was to play "hide and seek with the gamma ray source" by using the included Geiger counter to find a radioactive sample hidden in a room.