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TIL a Chinese-built submersible has the greatest depth range of any manned research vehicle in the world

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GAn61 TIL a minority of the world's languages are "ergative"—the object of a transitive verb & the subject of an intransitive verb are treated the same. For example: whereas in English we'd say "SHE likes HER" & "SHE walks"; in Basque (spoken in N. Spain/SW France), it'd be "SHE likes HER" but "HER walks"
M7OV0 TIL that US tick populations have exploded in the past 15 years, causing a surge in often misdiagnosed tick-borne diseases. One expert said, "If people could see what I'm seeing, they would never go outside."
4Ogg TIL that Saddam Hussein used Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” as his campaign song in the 2002 election
1aJ5V TIL in the final stages of hypothermia, humans exhibit two strange behaviors; paradoxical undressing, in which a person will remove all their clothes despite being dangerously close to death, and a completely autonomous, instinctual burrowing behavior.
mxlNy TIL Stan and Jan Berenstain, authors of the Berenstain Bears, wrote a book called “How to Teach Your Children about Sex without Making a Complete Fool of Yourself”