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TIL the singular of “spaghetti” is “spaghetto”

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1Mlr TIL nuclear energy is the safest energy source in terms of human deaths - even safer than wind and solar.
XEAYP TIL that a study from 2011-2015 of 160,000 adults from 31 countries concluded that teens who had lower levels of secondary education but who came from homes filled with books became as literate, numerate and technologically apt in adulthood as university graduates who grew up with only a few books.
9w0OB TIL Tampa Bay Lightning was owned by the Yakuza in its early years, constanly short on cash, and the NHL even doubted that owner Takashi Okubo, was a real person
E4Op TIL Lark Voorhies (Lisa Turtle from Saved By The Bell) has written an e-book on the creation of life where nearly every word is separated by a comma, and which appears to be the unreadable ramblings of someone who’s clearly mentally ill.
KObXw TIL that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains around 80 million kg of floating plastic debris of various size and shape, principally made of Polyethylene and Polypropylene, accumulated in an area 3 times the size of continental France.