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TIL you experience your Billionth (1,000,000,000) second of life during your 31st year

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9YV5D TIL closed captions and subtitles are different. Closed captions assume that watchers can't hear anything, therefore describing background noises, music and other audio cues that need discribing, while subtitles are assuming that the watchers can hear, and just says what the characters are saying.
x6oM5 TIL Vichy Pastilles were a digestive aid turned confectionery invented in 1825. The Vichy Regime of WW2 used the sweets as propaganda and did not ration them, unlike other foodstuffs. The name of the sweets is known to make some French citizens uneasy.
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N7Rwb TIL that goats adjust their 'accents' based on social surroundings
GYlZ1 TIL Goats have accents and if you take two goats from different parts of the world they won’t be able to understand each other