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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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nerkr TIL In 1958, the US Air Force lost a nuclear bomb in the waters near Savannah, Georgia that has still not been found.
69D9Q TIL about Miller v Jackson (1977), where a cricket club was sued by a couple over balls landing in their garden. While the court ruled for the couple, Lord Denning's famous dissent argued that the public interest in cricket should prevail over the private interest of the homeowners.
oR1yr TIL that the world’s largest kidney stone, removed from a patient in Sri Lanka, weighed 1.67 lbs (757.5g) and broke 2 world records.
lMPa TIL there is an underwater island that Sicilian divers have planted a flag in for when it breaches the surface.
4k8DJ TIL, dragonball creator Akira Toriyama, took the opportunity to make protagonist; Goku, easier to draw, when he conceived him as the first “super saiyan”.