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TIL The Spanish spoken in Mexico is noticeably different to the Spanish spoken in Spain in terms of syntax and vocabulary.

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Wk0OL TIL that in Tolkien's initial concepts for 'The Lord of the Rings', Aragorn was supposed to be a Hobbit named "Trotter" who had wooden feet. Further ideas included revealing him to be Bilbo in disguise or changing his wooden shoes to wooden feet on account of him being tortured in Mordor.
9YVkB TIL that the city of Sochi, Russia erected a fish statue costing about 3800 USD in honor of Gambusia affinis (aka mosquito fish) since, after introducing the fish in the early 1900s, there have been no cases of malaria for over 60 years.
m4bY TIL a German U-boat sank due to a toilet malfunction.
nWGZo TIL you are allowed to cite a conversation you had with AI in academic papers
a8OnA TIL that David Cox and Steven Zucker, two graduate students from Princeton, developed an algorithm for the intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces and named it the Cox-Zucker machine.